The first China new-type intelligent city construction summit was held on November 19 in Qingdao, Shandong province, with the theme of "urban diversity, brand empowerment, all-for-one exploration, future led by intelligent technology".

The summit is jointly hosted by the State Information Center, the Shandong Provincial Big Data Bureau and the Municipal Government of Qingdao.

It was the first time for CNIS to release the evaluation report on standardization supporting digital transformation of government and the "digital standardization index". Fu Qiang, Director of Standard Evaluation Sub-institute of CNIS, announced the evaluation report, which indicated the effect of standardization work conducted by China's provincial government during the process of digital transformation.

Guangdong, Shandong and Zhejiang ranked the top three of China's provinces for their comprehensive governance in the field of standardization work for digital government. The best 50 typical cases were selected out of 226 ones in 20 provinces across the nation.

Generally speaking, local authorities pay more attention to the role of standardization in digital government, which has been applied in more scenes.

The digital transformation of government has to deal with multiple collaborative factors, high-level complexity and take all things into consideration, which is very difficult and faces big challenges. However, standardization is a common language for more effective communication between different systems and elements. That is to say, standardization meets the current demands of digital government, as it advocates unification, simplification, coordination and optimization, said Wang Zongling, Vice-President and Secretary of the Party Committee of CNIS in the address.