Recently, at the 2026 China Internet Conference Digital Twins and Future Smart Cities Forum, Zhang Zhen, Deputy Director of the Institute of Industry and Planning of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology, officially released and interpreted the “2026 Top Ten Key Words for Future Smart Cities” to make a systematic judgment on the development direction and evolution trend of smart cities around the three levels of infrastructure, smart hubs, and application scenarios for future smart cities. The top ten keywords are intelligent integration of urban perception systems, digital and intelligent integration of the city's “six networks”, urban data space for reliable circulation, high-quality data sets for comprehensive urban management, urban data governance agents, large urban models, physical AI that supports urban deduction, urban integrated governance centers, collaborative systems with multiple urban agents, and innovative carriers for urban digital scenarios.

Zhitongcaijing · 2d ago
Recently, at the 2026 China Internet Conference Digital Twins and Future Smart Cities Forum, Zhang Zhen, Deputy Director of the Institute of Industry and Planning of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology, officially released and interpreted the “2026 Top Ten Key Words for Future Smart Cities” to make a systematic judgment on the development direction and evolution trend of smart cities around the three levels of infrastructure, smart hubs, and application scenarios for future smart cities. The top ten keywords are intelligent integration of urban perception systems, digital and intelligent integration of the city's “six networks”, urban data space for reliable circulation, high-quality data sets for comprehensive urban management, urban data governance agents, large urban models, physical AI that supports urban deduction, urban integrated governance centers, collaborative systems with multiple urban agents, and innovative carriers for urban digital scenarios.