Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Launches Pilot Program for Urban Infrastructure Safety Monitoring​​

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) recently issued a notice launching a pilot program for urban infrastructure safety monitoring in 22 cities (districts), including Zhejiang Province, Anhui Province, Haidian District in Beijing, and Shenyang City in Liaoning Province. The initiative aims to enhance urban infrastructure safety monitoring, effectively prevent accidents, and safeguard public life and property.

The pilot program focuses on four key tasks:

1.Establishing a Safety Monitoring System

Accelerate the integration of management information systems for gas, water supply, drainage, heating, bridges, and other infrastructure. Leveraging the urban operations management service platform, build a unified urban infrastructure safety monitoring system to enable intelligent sensing, comprehensive risk monitoring, timely warnings, and emergency response. The goal is to achieve centralized, network-based monitoring of urban infrastructure operations.

2.Encouraging Innovative Management Models

Promote new concepts, methods, and models for urban infrastructure safety management. Encourage private sector participation in infrastructure construction, operation, and maintenance, fostering a government-led, market-driven, multi-stakeholder collaboration model for mutual benefit.

3.Strengthening Technological Innovation and Application

Support pilot cities in collaborating with research institutions, universities, and enterprises to deepen industry-academia integration. Utilizing real-world scenarios, advance the development and iterative upgrading of monitoring and early warning technologies by applying 5G, BIM (Building Information Modeling), IoT (Internet of Things), AI (Artificial Intelligence), big data, and cloud computing. This will enhance management efficiency and early warning capabilities.

4.Promoting Standard System Development

Support pilot cities in formulating technical specifications and management protocols tailored to the operational characteristics and monitoring needs of various urban infrastructure systems. The objective is to establish a standardized framework for urban infrastructure safety monitoring.

The notice requires pilot regions to establish robust working mechanisms, accelerate implementation, and achieve substantive progress by 2022. MOHURD will summarize and promote innovative measures from the pilot areas, aiming to develop replicable and scalable best practices.