Research On The Policy Texts Of Provincial Smart Cities

Smart cities are an important tool and comprehensive carrier for implementing the new development concepts in the new era,coordinating the implementation of the national informatization development strategy and plan,and accelerating the building of a cyber power,a digital China and a smart society.China’s smart city construction has always benefited from the promotion of policies,and studying its policy content is of great significance for promoting the practical implementation and healthy development of smart cities in China,What are the smart city policies introduced by the provincial governments,which subjects are involved in the policies,and what are the characteristics of the cooperation network among the policy subjects?What policy tools are adopted in these smart city policies,and what are their preferences?What aspects should smart city policies focus on?Is the policy structure reasonable?Based on the perspective of policy paradigm,this paper takes 97 smart city policy texts at the provincial level as the research object,and conducts a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the content of smart city policy at the provincial level from three aspects:policy subject,policy tool and policy theme.In the first study,social network analysis was used to discuss the main body composition and network structure of provincial smart city policies.The findings are as follows:(1)The policy formulation is dominated by the publication of a single department,and the number of jointly published policies is small;(2)There are more participants,but the degree of cooperation among policy subjects is low,and the network structure of policy subjects has a large space for optimization.In the second study.the content analysis method is used to study the combination of policy tools and preferences of provincial smart city policies.The findings are as follows:(1)From the perspective of policy tools,the use of the three types of policy tools is not balanced,the use of supply policy tools is the most,the use of environmental policy tools is insufficient,the use of demand policy tools is least,and there is a structural imbalance within each type of policy tools;(2)From the perspective of application type,smart city policy tools are mostly used in the field of smart government,but not enough in the field of smart industry and smart people’s livelihood.(3)From the perspective of cross dimension,the government lacks pertinence in the selection and application of policy tools.Among the three application fields,the most used policy tools are supply-oriented,which reflects that the government plays a leading role in the construction of smart cities.The third study uses multivariate statistical analysis to explore the theme and structure of smart city policies at the provincial level.The findings are as follows:(1)Smart city policies cover a wide range of topics;(2)The unreasonable policy structure is reflected in the following aspects:first.the policy objectives are relatively broad and macro;second,the scope of policy objects cannot meet the needs of urban development;third,the policy means of smart city are relatively rigid.Finally,based on the above analysis results,this article proposes the following suggestions for the subsequent optimization of smart city policies:First,to build a cooperation mechanism among policy subjects,which can be started from the two aspects of strengthening the coordination of policy subjects and clarifying the rights and responsibilities of policy subjects;Second,optimize the structure of policy tools,including adjusting the combination of supply policy tools,attaching importance to the role of environmental policy tools,and strengthening the application of demand policy tools;The third is to improve the content of the policy system,which can be realized from the two aspects of constructing the policy target system and enhancing the systematization of the policy content.