JD unveils first phase of Xiongan smart city operating system for Xi Jinping’s city of the future

JD Digits, the e-commerce giant’s big data arm, is building up a smart city operating system that uses artificial intelligence. Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu all have their own plans for Xiongan, a smart city project personally backed by Chinese President Xi Jinping. — SCMP

JD.com has announced the first phase of what it calls a smart city operating system in Xiongan New Area, the ambitious future city project personally backed by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The platform is supposed to gather all the city’s data in one place, making it easier to be shared, the company said on Thursday, describing it as an integrated or “block data” platform. The Intelligent City operating system, unveiled at the company’s JD Discovery event, is a collaboration between JD Digits, previously known as JD Finance, and the state-owned China Xiongan Group.