en.Wedoany.com Reported - The National Data Administration officially issued the "2026 Digital Society Development Work Priorities" (hereinafter referred to as the "Work Priorities") on May 19, explicitly proposing the pilot construction of city-wide digital transformation tailored to local conditions. Against the backdrop of accelerated integration between artificial intelligence technology and urban governance, the document deploys 23 work tasks covering four major areas: digital public services, a better digital life, digital social governance, and institutional safeguards. Among these, AI-empowered city-wide digital transformation has become one of the core themes.
In advancing precise and efficient digital social governance, the "Work Priorities" provides a clear path for AI implementation: continuously improving the national land space basic information platform, deeply promoting the digital and intelligent transformation of the national ecological environment monitoring network, accelerating the intelligent construction and renovation of municipal infrastructure, comprehensively deepening the construction of the "One-Form-Through" system, and strengthening data empowerment for grassroots governance. This series of deployments points to a core logic—urban governance is transitioning from the informatization stage to the intelligentization stage, where AI is no longer just an auxiliary tool but begins to assume a systemic role in perception, analysis, prediction, and decision-making support.
The intelligent construction and renovation of municipal infrastructure is listed as one of the key tasks. This means traditional municipal assets such as urban roads, bridges, pipe networks, and lighting will achieve real-time status monitoring and fault warning through sensor deployment, edge computing nodes, and AI analysis platforms. The digital and intelligent transformation of the ecological environment monitoring network similarly relies on AI-driven technologies such as remote sensing image recognition, pollutant dispersion models, and automatic warning threshold determination, shifting environmental governance from passive response to proactive prevention.
At the grassroots governance level, the construction of the "One-Form-Through" system is explicitly written into the document. By unifying data collection entry points and AI-assisted form-filling verification, "One-Form-Through" addresses long-standing issues at the grassroots level, such as repetitive reporting to multiple departments and inconsistent data standards. Previously, community workers needed to repeatedly fill out numerous forms for different departments; the AI system can automatically map, deduplicate, and verify form fields, freeing grassroots workers from the "pressure of form-filling" and redirecting them towards services genuinely oriented to the public. The National Data Administration lists this work as part of the city-wide digital transformation pilot, indicating that reducing the burden on grassroots levels has been incorporated into the overall framework of digital social governance.
The "Work Priorities" simultaneously emphasizes institutional safeguards and ecosystem construction for the digital society. The document proposes researching and compiling digital society monitoring indicators and development indices, continuously promoting the "Data Elements ×" competition, and developing new digital society scenarios. The National Data Administration clearly stated that the next step will be to collaborate with relevant departments, in accordance with the deployment requirements of the Digital China construction plan, taking digital empowerment to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods and promote common prosperity as the value orientation, to build a ubiquitous, accessible, smart, convenient, fair, inclusive, safe, and orderly digital society.
The issuance of this "Work Priorities" highly aligns with the strategic positioning of 2026 as the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The National Data Work Conference held at the beginning of the year has already set the tone for 2026 as the "Year of Data Element Value Release," requiring focused efforts to smooth channels for data flow and resource allocation, activate data market supply and demand, and promote the full integration of data elements into the economic value creation process. City-wide digital transformation, as a crucial foothold for Digital China construction, is translating policy direction into perceptible governance effectiveness through the deep integration of artificial intelligence and urban governance infrastructure.
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