The Factors and Growth Mechanism for Smart City: a Survey of Nine cities of The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

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10.2991/essaeme-18.2018.34How to use a DOI?

Keywords

smart city, growing mechanism, social resource

Abstract

The concept of Smart City is changing the methods by which the cities manage urbanization strategies and govern city. The article on hand uses the dataset of nine cities of Guangdong, Southern province of China, to examine what social powers influent cities towards their smartness, and how they affect. It shows the influential social powers can be classified as four groups, personnel, capital, material and intellectual resources. After factor analysis, unit root test, cointegration test, Granger causality test and regression analysis, we found that, in the growth mechanism of smart city, the most important impetus force is financial resource, knowledge resource the second. Furthermore, in the progress towards smarter, the city will accelerate the accumulation of social resources. The results of this paper indicate the effect and efficiency of the strategy implementing in Guangdong Province.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Minghua Jiang
AU  - Xiao Luo
AU  - Chengwen Chen
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - The Factors and Growth Mechanism for Smart City: a Survey of Nine cities of The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 4th International Conference on Economics, Social Science, Arts, Education and Management Engineering (ESSAEME 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 183
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/essaeme-18.2018.34
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