Urban underground pipelines will have a three-dimensional "one-map" management system, gas and heating networks will achieve intelligent monitoring, and autonomous driving will expand into more application scenarios. Recently, the Qingdao Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau and 12 other departments jointly issued the "Qingdao Municipal Plan for Promoting New Urban Infrastructure Construction to Build a Resilient City" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), which outlines targets and tasks for the digital and intelligent transformation of urban infrastructure in the coming years.
According to the timeline set in the Plan, by 2028, the foundational capabilities of the municipal-level City Information Modeling (CIM) platform will be largely complete. Data from urban planning, construction, and management sectors will be aggregated, shared, and applied, effectively supporting the city's functions of "planning, construction, management, operation, service, and health assessment." By 2030, the digital transformation of urban infrastructure will achieve comprehensive breakthroughs. Key new urban infrastructure in the central urban area will achieve full coverage, significantly enhancing urban resilience in critical areas, making city operations safer, more orderly, smarter, and more efficient.
Seven key tasks have been defined to make the city more "resilient." What is the CIM platform? In simple terms, it creates a "digital twin" for the city. In the future, Qingdao will use the CIM platform and the spatiotemporal big data platform as its digital foundation to three-dimensionally digitize urban infrastructure such as buildings, underground pipelines, roads, and bridges, exploring the construction of a digital twin city. Simultaneously, based on the municipal CIM platform and the urban operation management service platform, industry regulatory systems for gas, heating, water supply, drainage, bridges, and tunnels will be integrated to create a city-wide safety monitoring system for urban infrastructure lifelines, accelerating the implementation of a unified network for urban operation management.
Municipal facilities will become "smarter." Water supply, drainage, gas, heating, power supply, roads, bridges, and utility tunnels will gradually be equipped with IoT sensing devices. New municipal infrastructure will be designed, constructed, and delivered with IoT sensing devices simultaneously, while older facilities will undergo orderly upgrades. Monitoring will achieve full coverage for "three-special" bridges and high-risk conventional bridges in the central urban area. Additionally, pilot projects for "UAV + AI" intelligent streetlight inspection and smart light poles for low-altitude economy applications will be launched. Efforts will be made to promote the construction of underground pipeline information systems and the long-term updating of databases, realizing visualized three-dimensional intelligent management for the planning, construction, management, and operation of underground pipeline networks, establishing an underground pipeline "one-map."
Vehicle-infrastructure coordination will accelerate. The integration of vehicles, roads, and cloud systems will be promoted, and road intelligent perception systems will be constructed. Multi-scenario demonstration applications for intelligent connected vehicles will be carried out in areas such as logistics distribution, security patrols, and sanitation cleaning. Meanwhile, intelligent upgrades for parking facilities will be accelerated to create a "city-wide one parking lot" system.
"Smart residential communities" and "digital homes" will be advanced simultaneously. According to the Plan, new residential communities will achieve comprehensive coverage of smart infrastructure. Older communities will improve technical security facilities like video surveillance and perimeter protection, and promote the construction of electric bicycle charging and swapping facilities. The data link from "home - community - neighborhood - city" will be established. Digital homes will be incorporated into the technical system for "good houses" and high-quality residences, with digital home scenarios being widely promoted in new residential buildings.
With the application of new technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, the construction industry is no longer satisfied with traditional working methods. Today, we are witnessing a significant shift from "moving bricks" to "pressing keyboards," as smart construction technologies lead the "intelligent upgrade" of the building sector. In the future, the city will continue to strengthen the application of smart construction, promoting new technologies like steel structures, modular buildings, and prefabricated decoration. It will enhance the application of BIM technology throughout the entire lifecycle of design, construction, and operation and maintenance. The city aims to cultivate a smart construction industry cluster, creating an influential industrial agglomeration hub nationally.
Furthermore, a city-wide housing safety management platform will be established to conduct regular inspections and dynamic updates for safety hazards in older buildings, including foundations, main structures, seismic performance, external wall insulation, and firefighting facilities. Innovations in systems such as building health assessments and building insurance will be promoted.
The construction of a resilient city embodies the aspiration to be "unafraid of storms." In the future, when every pipeline can "talk," every bridge can "sense," and every parking lot can "guide"... the city will no longer be a jungle of steel and concrete but a living organism that breathes, senses, and responds adeptly.
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