Research on the Path of Sustainable Development of Mega-cities

based on the Background of Big Data: Taking Wuhan City as an

Example

Yu Lei

and Yu Ding

School of Literature, Law and Economics, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Keywords: Big Data, Sustainable Development, Smart City.

Abstract: The application of big data technology in the process of urban sustainable development is already an

irreversible trend. China’s 14th Five-Year Plan clearly points out that it is necessary to accelerate digital

development, promote the construction of new cities, and promote the level of sustainable urban development.

As one of the megacities in China, Wuhan is taking the path of urban construction, urban governance, urban

planning, independent innovation, and rational allocation of resources based on benefiting from policy

dividends and in-depth big data, it will help promote the sustainable development of Wuhan to a higher level.

1 INTRODUCTION

As the scale of cities continues to expand and the

number of cities continues to increase, more and more

cities have joined the ranks of megacities. The

sustainable development and social governance of

such cities is inevitable problems. In the impact of

data technology on the sustainable development of

cities, there are still problems such as the lack of

overall planning in the use of data, the imperfect data

sharing mechanism, and the emphasis on

infrastructure rather than operation and management.

Therefore, it is necessary to seek new solutions

and countermeasures for the many problems that

affect the sustainable development of the city caused

by the continuous expansion of Wuhan. With the

attention of the state, Wuhan's goal of using big data

technology for sustainable development has risen to a

strategic level and has become its future development

direction.

Actively follow the path of independent

innovation in the planning, construction, layout and

application of big data technology, firmly grasp the

initiative in their own hands, and strive to make

greater contributions to the sustainable development

of Wuhan.

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2 ANALYSIS OF THE STATUS

QUO OF SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT IN WUHAN

UNDER THE BACKGROUND

OF BIG DATA

As a sub-provincial city, a national central city, and a

provincial capital, Wuhan has taken the lead in

benefiting from the policy dividends of national

development, and vigorously carried out urban

construction based on data integration, laying a solid

foundation for Wuhan's sustainable development

strategy.

2.1 The Wuhan Municipal Government

Attaches Great Importance

In the "Wuhan City Big Data Industry Development

Action Plan", it is clearly pointed out that it is

necessary to take advantage of the big data industry

development opportunities to accelerate the scale

upgrade and informatization construction of Wuhan's

information industry, improve independent

innovation capabilities, and combine the big data

industry with application characteristics to form

unique development advantage (Huang and Wang,

Lei, Y. and Ding, Y.

Research on the Path of Sustainable Development of Mega-cities based on the Background of Big Data: Taking Wuhan City as an Example.

DOI: 10.5220/0011305500003437

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2021). At the same time, it will strengthen the

construction of big data industry bases and

communication infrastructure and create big data

centers (mainly including municipal cloud data

centers, geospatial information cloud data centers,

etc.). In addition, the Wuhan Municipal Government

has used the huge scale of higher education in Wuhan

to continuously build a big data theory and

application center to give it the greatest degree of

support.

2.2 Introduce Foreign Investment to

Help the Development of Wuhan's

Big Data Industry

Wuhan actively responds to the country’s deployment

of the big data industry in megacities, and actively

introduces the world’s top 500 IT central enterprises-

China Electronics Corporation and Kaijin Holdings

Group. At the same time, it vigorously supports the

Yangtze River Yuntong Group to promote the

development of the enterprise in terms of resources,

capital and technology. As a digital city construction

platform, Changjiang Yuntong Group will build a data

industry analysis group with data interconnection in

order to better assist the development of Wuhan's

urban big data industry.

2.3 Wuhan City's Achievements in

Sustainable Urban Development

under the Background of Big Data

Relying on the big data platform, Wuhan is actively

building a smart city in all aspects, including smart

government affairs, smart transportation, smart

medical and other smart facilities. The Wuhan

Internet Information Office, under the guidance of the

Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal

Government, formulated big data industry policies

and created a "Cloud Wuhan" government affairs

platform, which greatly improved the efficiency of

government departments in terms of information

sharing, the "information island" that has long

hindered Wuhan's economic development has been

broken, and the interconnection of data has been truly

realized (Zhou and Wang, 2021).

In terms of medical care, Wuhan has formed a

complete medical and health emergency response,

management and command system by building a

regional medical information platform for residents'

health files and using technologies such as big data

and the Internet of Things to highly integrate health

resources. At the same time, the big data platform has

also made remarkable achievements in assisting

medical, health, and epidemic prevention, especially

during the epidemic in Wuhan, it learned the

population flow through big data, judged the spread

of the epidemic in advance and combining the

diagnosis results to find the trajectory of close

contacts, etc., have greatly promoted the sustainable

development of urban medical care (Wu, 2021).

In terms of urban transportation, through the

establishment of a big data smart platform, the effect

of data fusion and channel linkage is achieved, and

construct a comprehensive network system that

combines people, vehicles, and roads to provide real-

time warning of abnormal traffic conditions,

accurately monitor congested road sections,

established a traffic police service linkage system.

Secondly, through the Internet intelligent

transportation system, citizens can use mobile APP

and other Internet means to check and implement

updated road condition information through multiple

channels. Finally, in terms of data sharing, it can

provide protection for the public security organs to

detect cases, daily public security management, and

public transportation.

3 SHORTCOMINGS IN THE

SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT OF WUHAN

IN THE CONTEXT OF BIG

DATA

3.1 Lack of Overall Planning for Data

Use

As early as Wuhan City’s opinions on accelerating the

promotion and application of big data to promote the

development of the big data industry were issued and

implemented, various data platforms in Wuhan have

been established one after another, but there is still a

lack of planning in terms of data management and

public participation. The evaluation and monitoring

capabilities in the process of urban sustainable

development need to be improved. The use of big data

for data analysis and subsequent implementation

effects have not yet completed, scientific, and

reasonable institutional arrangements, it is difficult to

meet the needs of enterprises and society.

The overall design is rigid. In the process of urban

sustainable development under big data monitoring,

there is a lack of perfect design of the big data

platform, and it often shows weaknesses such as poor

self-adjustment ability when faced with special

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circumstances. For example, in the face of heavy rain

disasters, we will use big data to prepare in advance,

but after the heavy rain disasters, public health, urban

traffic and other issues will inevitably arise. This kind

of cross-platform data information and data operation

team may lack cooperation due to the inconsistency

of goals, and finally appear chaotic and inefficient

problems.

Figure 1: Hubei Province's Digital Economy Structure.

3.2 Data Sharing Mechanism Needs to

Be Improved

Information is the source of result analysis, and

government departments also highly rely on the

integrated analysis of multiple information to achieve

scientific decision-making when making

management decisions for the city.

However, for multi-departmental information

collection, due to imperfect mechanisms, data sharing

cannot be carried out in a timely manner, and

departmental linkage is slow, which has a greater

impact on the efficiency of urban management and

decision-making efficiency of government

departments (Wang, Wang 2021). At the same time,

due to the large number of data platforms, official and

unofficial platform data will be different, which

brings a certain degree of difficulty to the integration

of government-enterprise data.

3.3 Focus on Infrastructure and Light

on Operation Management

Since the implementation of the "Wuhan City Big

Data Industry Development Action Plan", Wuhan has

introduced many technology companies, which has

greatly improved the hardware system, and data

centers, servers, and corresponding cloud computing

capabilities are already available. Great investment in

urban development relying on big data, which greatly

reflects the emphasis on infrastructure.

Secondly, in terms of operations, it takes a lot of

effort to maintain the operation of the hardware

system on the infrastructure, it is very easy to

contradictions in the use of data and operation

management in the early stage, resulting in

imbalanced performance and output. Eventually, due

to low efficiency, it will have an impact on

government decision-making.

4 THE PATH OF SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT IN WUHAN

UNDER THE BACKGROUND

OF BIG DATA

The Wuhan Bureau of Natural Resources and

Planning began to formulate the "Wuhan City

Epidemic Rehabilitation Plan" at the early stage of

epidemic control, clearly pointing out that many

problems have been exposed in public service

facilities, urban operation and management, and the

construction of smart cities (Hao, Ma 2021).

During this period, the role of big data is of

extraordinary significance. It is a new engine for the

sustainable development of Wuhan and brings new

opportunities for the economic development of

Wuhan. The combination of a good overall plan and

the use of existing advantages is conducive to

becoming a huge driving force for Wuhan's economic

growth. Big data provides new ideas for the

sustainable development of cities. How to combine

data and information technology with sustainable

development has tried to explore the following path.

4.1 Explore the Establishment of New

Models and Optimize the Allocation

of Data Resources

The configuration of data resources is not a single

configuration, but a combination of "data +

enterprise", "data + government affairs", "data +

technology" and other environments to promote the

joint development of data and industry. Thereby

enhancing the intelligence level of data serving

enterprises and society and improving the quality of

data in practice.

Data resources are the central system of urban

operations. In Wuhan, according to the development

status of different regions and industries, the

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correlation of data resource allocation is analyzed,

and finally, obvious targeted measures are formed on

this basis. Whether the data and industry are properly

allocated is the key to measuring the effectiveness of

the new model, in order to achieve a reasonable

allocation of data and industry, innovations should be

made in investment and operation (Li 2019).

The most important measure is that the

government authorizes its official data and

establishes a data platform with industries or

companies. For example, Medea’s Wuhan factory

actively connects with the Wuhan Big Data

Administration to jointly build a super-big data

platform in related fields to realize unimpeded data

flow, and while creating high-quality and efficient

products, it can accurately grasp market trends and

market demand, thereby leading the industry

consumption upgrade.

Figure 2: Block diagram of the optimal allocation model of big data resources.

4.2 Grasp the New Development

Pattern and Firm the Path of

Independent Innovation

The most essential feature of building a new

development pattern is to achieve a high level of self-

reliance. Technological self-reliance and are the

strategic support for the development of a country and

a city.

Continuously achieve breakthroughs in the field

of science and technology through independent

innovation, and promptly convert scientific and

technological theories into scientific and

technological achievements, forming a connection

between the innovation chain and the industrial chain,

forming a strong competitiveness in the market, and

forming a strong productivity in the society. Break

through key technical bottlenecks with high quality

and high level and promote a new development

pattern.

As a city of higher education and technology,

Wuhan has profound educational resources and basic

conditions. At present, Wuhan has research centers

for IGS (International GNSS Service Organization)

data, data governance and global data, spatio-

temporal big data, and other research centers in

universities, national laboratories for big data and

health protection, big data application technology in

the government and society. Relying on this

innovative condition, it can inject strong impetus into

the high-level development of science and technology

in Wuhan, break the "data barrier", and realize the

transformation of scientific and technological

innovation results in an orderly manner.

4.3 Deepen Big Data Technology and

Improve the Level of Urban

Governance

"Data openness" is a typical sign of big data

technology in the process of urban governance. In the

new era, data resources are also one of the public

infrastructures. The use of massive data to develop

various applications and maximize the value of data

is one of the effective means of urban governance

(Deng, Yang, Wu, Chen 2019).

During the epidemic, in order to solve the problem

of finding close contacts, the national government

affairs platform united multiple departments and

multiple Internet platforms to form a close contact

inquiry system, laying the foundation for Internet

companies to develop health codes.

The application of this in Wuhan has also received

significant results and has made a great contribution

to the effective control of the epidemic. Secondly, big

data technology has also played a key role in urban

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environmental governance. In the detection of urban

environmental pollution, big data can detect changes

in environmental quality indicators in real time, and

analyze the massive data collected to form a complete

set of environmental governance plans.

The analysis results can be used as an important

basis for environmental governance departments to

make decisions and improve the scientific nature of

their decisions (Fang, Hu 2020). In terms of urban

social governance, in the past, due to the limitations

of the times, the government used coercive methods

to govern the society, and the rights of most people

were not fully realized.

In modern society, big data technology can help

the government better fulfill this requirement, better

realize the dialogue between the government and the

residents, help build a more open, inclusive, high-

quality city with a modern level of urban governance.

Specially, urban residents have a strong sense of

rights and have higher quality requirements for living

standards.

4.4 Strengthen the Linkage between

Data and Improve the Overall

Urban Planning

The overall planning of the city is increasingly

affected by big data, traditional urban planning

mainly relies on manual surveying and mapping and

the support of census data.

There are obvious information distortions and

shortcomings in data, which have great limitations on

the long-term planning of the entire city. With the

support of big data today, the big data technology is

fully integrated into the overall situation of urban

planning, and the combination of traditional

government data and new social network data can be

more conducive to the rational planning of the city.

Secondly, in terms of urban functional zoning, the

overall analysis of urban population size, land use

level, and architectural planning layout is carried out

through big data, and a reasonable urban functional

zoning is planned, through the integration of mobile

communication equipment, positioning systems and

other data platforms, it provides a new channel for the

analysis and understanding of urban spatial structure.

Finally, in urban planning, make good use of big data

technology to improve the overall planning of the

city, so that it is not limited to one street and one

district in the city, but to form a more complete urban

structure.

As far as Wuhan City is concerned, its long-term

urban planning should be consistent with the overall

planning of Hubei Province, which is more conducive

to driving regional economic development. At

present, big data cloud computing analysis

technology has made great progress, and its

application can make urban planning more scientific.

5 CONCLUSION

With the support of big data technology, Wuhan can

establish a more complete urban order, a higher level

of urban governance, and a more sustainable urban

development.

Based on optimizing the allocation of data

resources, taking the road of technological

independent innovation, and accelerating the

construction of "digital cities" and "smart cities",

promote the long-term sustainable development of

Wuhan City under the support of big data technology,

and strive to become a model of sustainable urban

development in the central region.

On this basis, it will greatly enhance its outward

attraction, radiation and agglomeration power as a

central city.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I am very grateful for the concern and careful

guidance given by my teacher, and put forward many

valuable suggestions for improvement. I also want to

thank my friends for their patience in listening and

helping, and for their care and care for me in life and

study.

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