CHENGDU?- The capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan province will build itself into a smart city, according to the Smart Cities and Green IT Forum held on Thursday.

According to Han Chunlin, chief of the administrative committee of the Chengdu Hi-tech Zone, building smart cities are a new phase in the development of urban informatization. It is an effective way to make use of green IT to create the green GDP.

Since 2010, the city government of Chengdu and Cisco have worked together in the implementation of the so-called “Tianfu Smart Internet City” experiment in the Chengdu Hi-tech zone.

The experiment consists of “smart city management,” “Smart Internet Industry Service,” and “Smart Internet community service,” Han said.