Learning from Singapore's Smart Governance: Huang Min-hui Blueprints a New Vision for Smart Chiayi
Chiayi City Mayor Huang Min-hui led a team to Singapore, visiting SMRT and Grab to gather insights on smart cities and digital transportation networks, aiming to implement these practices in Chiayi.
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(CNA Reporter Jiang Yi-jing, Chiayi City, 23rd) Chiayi City Mayor Huang Min-hui visited Singapore, not only attending a food exhibition but also inspecting SMRT Corporation and the headquarters of Grab, Southeast Asia's largest super app platform, focusing on smart cities, smart transportation, and digital integration.
Mayor Huang led her city government team to visit Singapore on the 20th, focusing exchanges on Singapore's development as a "Smart Nation." Through on-site visits to the world-leading public transport operator SMRT and the super app platform Grab, the team sought to understand how highly dense urban environments combine institutional planning with technological applications to build highly efficient and resilient urban governance models. This serves as an important reference for Chiayi City's promotion of "Smart Governance and Livability for All Ages."
Huang stated that despite Singapore's small land area, it continually upgrades the city through design and smart implementation, which resonates closely with Chiayi City's development path, making it a worthy object of observation and learning.
Huang pointed out that Chiayi City's public transportation is expanding from points and lines to entire areas—encompassing rail transport (High-Speed Rail, Taiwan Railways), electric buses, Happy Buses, and YouBike public bicycles—to build a complete hierarchical traffic network. As the city is currently in the stage of railway elevation and planning for a Blue Line light rail, the technologies and operational models of SMRT and Grab hold significant reference value for optimizing future public transit systems.
Huang emphasized that this inspection trip not only deepens international city exchanges but also provides a systematic understanding of Singapore's successful experiences in smart transportation and data governance, which will be translated into important foundations for Chiayi City's future administrative promotion.
Huang mentioned that the city government will draw on Singapore's successful experiences, integrating local developmental needs to promote traffic optimization, digital transformation, and urban spatial restructuring. This will gradually build a "Smart Chiayi" that is intelligent, livable, and industrially competitive, allowing Chiayi City to continuously advance and achieve sustainable development amid the wave of urban progress. (Editor: Li Xizhang) 1150423
(CNA Reporter Jiang Yi-jing, Chiayi City, 23rd) Chiayi City Mayor Huang Min-hui visited Singapore, not only attending a food exhibition but also inspecting SMRT Corporation and the headquarters of Grab, Southeast Asia's largest super app platform, focusing on smart cities, smart transportation, and digital integration.
Mayor Huang led her city government team to visit Singapore on the 20th, focusing exchanges on Singapore's development as a "Smart Nation." Through on-site visits to the world-leading public transport operator SMRT and the super app platform Grab, the team sought to understand how highly dense urban environments combine institutional planning with technological applications to build highly efficient and resilient urban governance models. This serves as an important reference for Chiayi City's promotion of "Smart Governance and Livability for All Ages."
Huang stated that despite Singapore's small land area, it continually upgrades the city through design and smart implementation, which resonates closely with Chiayi City's development path, making it a worthy object of observation and learning.
Huang pointed out that Chiayi City's public transportation is expanding from points and lines to entire areas—encompassing rail transport (High-Speed Rail, Taiwan Railways), electric buses, Happy Buses, and YouBike public bicycles—to build a complete hierarchical traffic network. As the city is currently in the stage of railway elevation and planning for a Blue Line light rail, the technologies and operational models of SMRT and Grab hold significant reference value for optimizing future public transit systems.
Huang emphasized that this inspection trip not only deepens international city exchanges but also provides a systematic understanding of Singapore's successful experiences in smart transportation and data governance, which will be translated into important foundations for Chiayi City's future administrative promotion.
Huang mentioned that the city government will draw on Singapore's successful experiences, integrating local developmental needs to promote traffic optimization, digital transformation, and urban spatial restructuring. This will gradually build a "Smart Chiayi" that is intelligent, livable, and industrially competitive, allowing Chiayi City to continuously advance and achieve sustainable development amid the wave of urban progress. (Editor: Li Xizhang) 1150423