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Shanghai Data Exchange (SDE) has initiated a new business racing track of data factor market. SDE has independently developed a data trading system named niDts Intelligent Data Trading System, which provides efficient, convenient, transparent and secure data trading services, enabling the market development of data as a production factor, and fueling the digital transformation of economy, life and governance.
Highways and roads are a crucial part of every country’s public infrastructure. Their maintenance currently faces three main challenges. 1) daily road maintenance operations and technical status assessments of highways rely on tacit human experience. 2) inspection and maintenance workers are using portable terminal tools with low levels of intelligence. 3) on-site operations and back-office supervision and management of maintenance operations are inefficient due to slow turnover rates.
Hangzhou, the Chinese tech-hub megacity, have announced plans to use their health code app from their coronavirus response in future public health plans. The app displays a QR code with the user's current viral status, granting different freedoms of movement depending on your status or not. The plans for the app is to integrate other health data and indicators to develop individual rankings, scoring citizens based off indicators including medical records, physical test results, level of activity…
Primary School pupils are creating 'one-meter hats' in a Chinese school to help reinforce and promote social distancing. Students attend Yangzheng Elementary School created hats with 0.5 meter protrusions extending horizontally either side from the hat, which allow students to always understand when 1 meter away from other students. They created them at home with their parents before the school re-opened.
Under the Public Sector Trial Scheme, this project aims to examine how to enhance the drivers' behavior by trial on the public sectors' vehicles by using driving safety modules - Safematics Smart Safety System (4S Solution) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, or ADAS to help drivers in the driving process. Through this, the government has a way of improving drivers' driving behavior and get more useful data to study the road design in urban settings.