New smart city clusters’ construction level evaluation under economic circles: the case of Shandong, China
China’s Shandong Province plans to create a new smart city cluster that is developmentfocused, demand-led, people-oriented, and data-driven. This entails the scientific assessment of construction levels, analysis of potential hurdles, and formulation of upgraded strategies. However, existing resear...
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| author | Xuhui Cong Sai Wang Liang Wang Zhipeng Qi Miroslaw J. Skibniewski |
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China’s Shandong Province plans to create a new smart city cluster that is developmentfocused, demand-led, people-oriented, and data-driven. This entails the scientific assessment of construction levels, analysis of potential hurdles, and formulation of upgraded strategies. However, existing research has mainly focused on measuring single or multiple traditional smart cities, therein overlooking the construction level of new smart city clusters. Thus, this study takes the new smart city clusters in Shandong Province and uses both entropy method and the Moran index to analyze the construction level and spatial differences in the four dimensions of social livelihood, economic production, innovation-driven development, and safeguard measures. Results show that the construction level of the provincial capital economic circle is uneven and has polarization issues. Meanwhile, the construction level of Jiaodong economic circle is relatively good, although the economic driving capacity needs further improvement. The low urbanization rate of the Lunan economic circle occupies a gathering zone with low construction levels, making the construction of digital villages necessary. Targeted suggestions in improving the radiationdriven capacity of core cities, improving digital infrastructure, and developing smart industries are then forwarded to promote the establishment of new smart city clusters and achieve top-notch economic growth.
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| spelling | doaj.art-9e96b3de2f834271b4e99517d446a1dd2023-04-21T15:17:29ZengVilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityTechnological and Economic Development of Economy2029-49132029-49212023-04-0129310.3846/tede.2023.18792New smart city clusters’ construction level evaluation under economic circles: the case of Shandong, ChinaXuhui Cong0Sai Wang1Liang Wang2Zhipeng Qi3Miroslaw J. Skibniewski4Business School, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, ChinaBusiness School, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, ChinaManagement School, Hainan University, Haikou, ChinaBusiness School, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, ChinaDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Institute for Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gliwice, Poland; Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan; Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania China’s Shandong Province plans to create a new smart city cluster that is developmentfocused, demand-led, people-oriented, and data-driven. This entails the scientific assessment of construction levels, analysis of potential hurdles, and formulation of upgraded strategies. However, existing research has mainly focused on measuring single or multiple traditional smart cities, therein overlooking the construction level of new smart city clusters. Thus, this study takes the new smart city clusters in Shandong Province and uses both entropy method and the Moran index to analyze the construction level and spatial differences in the four dimensions of social livelihood, economic production, innovation-driven development, and safeguard measures. Results show that the construction level of the provincial capital economic circle is uneven and has polarization issues. Meanwhile, the construction level of Jiaodong economic circle is relatively good, although the economic driving capacity needs further improvement. The low urbanization rate of the Lunan economic circle occupies a gathering zone with low construction levels, making the construction of digital villages necessary. Targeted suggestions in improving the radiationdriven capacity of core cities, improving digital infrastructure, and developing smart industries are then forwarded to promote the establishment of new smart city clusters and achieve top-notch economic growth. https://btp.vgtu.lt/index.php/TEDE/article/view/18792new smart city clusterconstruction leveleconomic circlehigh-quality economic development |
| spellingShingle | Xuhui Cong Sai Wang Liang Wang Zhipeng Qi Miroslaw J. Skibniewski New smart city clusters’ construction level evaluation under economic circles: the case of Shandong, China Technological and Economic Development of Economy new smart city cluster construction level economic circle high-quality economic development |
| title | New smart city clusters’ construction level evaluation under economic circles: the case of Shandong, China |
| title_full | New smart city clusters’ construction level evaluation under economic circles: the case of Shandong, China |
| title_fullStr | New smart city clusters’ construction level evaluation under economic circles: the case of Shandong, China |
| title_full_unstemmed | New smart city clusters’ construction level evaluation under economic circles: the case of Shandong, China |
| title_short | New smart city clusters’ construction level evaluation under economic circles: the case of Shandong, China |
| title_sort | new smart city clusters construction level evaluation under economic circles the case of shandong china |
| topic | new smart city cluster construction level economic circle high-quality economic development |
| url | https://btp.vgtu.lt/index.php/TEDE/article/view/18792 |
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