Research On The Construction Of Smart Cities In Henan Province

As a symbol of human civilization and the carrier of the social and economic development,the city is the area where population,industry,capital and productivity are highly contralized,and the core of regional economic activities.With the continuous progress of urbanization,the social economy is burgeoning rapidly,but at the same time,this is accompanied by a series of problems,such as ecological imbalance,resource depletion,population explosion,delayed governance and social contradictions,etc.In order to achieve the sustainable development in terms of the urban economy,society and ecology,IBM has put forward the development model of "Smart City",and gradually all parts of the world also witnessed the exploration on it.Currently,the research in this aspect mainly focuses on a new generation of information technology,such as large data,cloud computing and broadband networks,and on public management,ignoring the other important aspects of urban evaluation.As a result,there exists few studies on the ecological dimension of "Smart City".An increasing emphasis is placed on urban ecological construction.In particular,it is proposed in the "13th Five-Year Plan" and the report of 18 th National People's Congress that the construction of ecological civilization be strengthened and fully integrated with a well-off society.Besides,rigorously developing "Smart City" is,after all,a way to actualize the long-term on-going urbanization process in the future and the connotation of ecological civilization.From the perspective of ecological development,the relationship between the ecological development and the "Smart City" will be explored in this thesis,with Henan Province being a case stufy.The problem of the construction of ecological civilization will be elaborated in this thesis,which begins with some relevant theoretical basis,such as the theory of sustainable development,of new urbanization,of circular economy and of regional coordination,etc.and with the intepretation concerning such concepts as eco-city,intelligent city,smart city and ecologically developed smart city.Then,the index are selected by means of frequency analytic approach and theoretical analysis method,in order to put the urban ecological evaluation index system in place.Additionally,PCA(principal component analysis)is employed to make a horizontal comparison on the construction levels of the first-batch pilot cities of "Smart City" in Henan Province,namely,Zhengzhou,Hebi,Luohe and Jiyuan,under the perspective of ecological development,and a vertical comparison of Zhengzhou from 2010 to 2014.The study shows that the level of wisdom city in Henan Province is disproportionate.To be more exact,Zhengzhou and Jiyuan are relatively more advanced,while,drawing on the excellent natural resources and ecological environment,Hebi and Luohe are endowed with great potentials for development.Zhengzhou in recent years has been on constant rise in terms of construction level of "Smart City",and more attention should be paid to the popularization of socialconstruction in the future.Finally,in light of these analysis,some countermeasures and suggestions for the construction of wisdom city in Henan province are put forward.The innovation of this paper lies firstly in integrating the concept of ecology into "Smart City" to explore the ecological dimension contained in it,and secondly in using the frequency statistics method and the theoretical analysis method to select the ecological evaluation index,so as to analyze and compare the construction level of the pilot "Smart City" in Henan province.