1. Smart Cities Mitigate Urban Development Problems 3
1.1 Demographic Debt 3
1.2 Still Room for Improvement in Urbanization 4
1.3 Exploitation of Natural Resources 5
2. Smart City Development in Tandem with Big Data 7
2.1 Smart Transportation Applications to Have the Highest Market Volume 9
2.2 Smart Medical Care Built on Underlying Database 10
2.3 HD Surveillance Video Quality to Boost Big Data Applications 12
Conclusion 13
Policy Support and Urban Development Continue to Drive Chinese Smart City Development 13
Smart Cities to Adopt Big Data Applications in Diverse Fields with Different Progress 14
Appendix 16
Glossary of Terms 16
List of Companies 17

Overview of China's smart city projects and their benefits to mitigate the problems stemming from the rapid economic development, including demographic debt, surge in urban population, and exploitation of natural resources

Major big data applications that are incorporated in China's smart city development, including dig data applications in major smart city sectors
 

Table 1: Ranking of Reduction in Rural Population by 2050 4
Table 2: China's Carbon Emission and Economic Growth 6
Table 3: Development Highlights of Smart Cities for Major Chinese Cities 6
Table 4: Smart Cities to Develop Together with Big Data 7
Table 5: Guideline to Promote the Development of Big Data 8
Table 6: Focal Areas of Smart Medical Care Services 11