Three people were killed and more than one million others affected in Fujian province (east) by Typhoon Meranti, the tenth tropical typhoon to hit China this year, officials said Saturday authorities.
Three people were killed after their homes were ravaged by high winds, according to a statement of the provincial flood control.
At least 186,500 people were evacuated in Fujian and 1.05 million have been affected. The economic damage is estimated at 800.3 million yuan (117.7 million dollars), the statement said.
Typhoon Meranti approached the city of Shishi in Fujian at 3:30 Friday morning. The wind speed near the center of the typhoon peaked 108 km / h. He left Fujian and entered the neighboring province of Zhejiang (eastern) Friday at 19:00.
In recent years, the "smart city" has gradually become a hot topic, give the public a expectation on better future city life. In the international arena, has been more than 200 "smart city" projects are being implemented. Some domestic cities are taking positive action, Shanghai put forward that take advantage of urban wisdom to building a smart city, Wuhan in October last year, has taken substantive steps to construct smart city, Ningbo in September 2010 to make a decision on building a smart city, then introduced five-year Action Platform for the smart city construction. The city has also been classified as hubs of the province to build a central hub "smart city system. Conform to the wave of smart city, develop intelligent industry in the city to promote the construction of “two districts six cities ", the first to build a moderately prosperous society of a higher level to benefit the whole people, should play an active role.
An "intelligent life", and "smart city" is closer to us
Last year, two reports on Zhejiang may not seem like much, but let us smell the atmosphere of "intelligent life", see the dawn of the "smart city".
The first report: Ningbo held the first China Intelligence Fair, provincial ministries tripartite signed a "smart city" pilot cooperation agreement. September 2, 2011, China's first smart city Expo - 2011 China Smart City technology and application products Exposition "held in Ningbo. Three days exhibition, 310 enterprises participate in the exhibition, 16 total investment of 6.5 billion smart city cooperation projects located in Ningbo.