Development of Smart City Policies in First-tier Cities in China

ABSTRACT To explore the policy tools to study the smart city policies in Chinese first-tier cities, which can help to promote the direction of smart city management. This research adopts a quantitative textual analysis method to collect relevant policies of Chinese first-tier cities from 2010 to 2021, and constructs a pilot analysis of smart city policies from supply-based, demand-based, and environmental perspectives by using Nvivo literature coding software. The results of the research show that local governments should strengthen the integration and sharing of information resources, improve the management of smart city industry chain, optimize the management mode, eliminate digital barriers, and realize the transformation from traditional management to smart management on the basis of strengthening information security measures. Keywords: Smart city policy, Quantitative text analysis, Urban strategies, Policy analysis tools