Policy Recommendation for Smart Urban Resilience: Evidence from China

Evidence from 282 cities in China in the span of 2009 to 2017 indicates that smart city implementation supports the improvement of urban resilience, particularly in the urban economics resiliency and social resiliency. Zhou et al. (2021) provide three recommendation for their study findings to increase urban resilience through smart city development. 

1. City must take advantage of technological innovation to upgrade and transform the economic activities that are more sustainable, such as using green energy and eliminate the waste and pollution from our production, distribution and consumption. 
2. City must facilitate company development and industrial transformation by lowering the barrier to the integration of traditional industries with digital industries, such as building knowledge innovation network, promote the development towards urban resilience through policy and encourage industry and companies to use of open public information
3. City also need to provide a system that improve and promote better human capital development, through provision of worker’s learning and creation facility, improving financial support for vocational & higher education and provide better wage system that benefit the worker’s physical, psychological and social well being

With these policy recommendation applies, cities may recognise the improvement in their cities with increase the number of good companies, attracts valuable labour forces, larger city size, more rational industrial structure, all elements that significantly strengthen urban resilience. 

Reference: 

Zhou, Q., Zhu, M., Qiao, Y., Zhang, X., & Chen, J. (2021). Achieving resilience through smart cities? Evidence from China. Habitat International, 111, 102348.