🏛️ Governance

Tianjin City Brain

Tianjin's municipal 'City Brain' launched on 20 May 2021 at the 5th World Intelligence Congress, built and run by the Tianjin Municipal Big Data Management Center on a '1+5+N' structure: one overview screen of city operations, five thematic dashboards (city overview, economic development, government services, urban governance, public welfare), feeding 'N' application scenarios. Named deployed scenarios include direct-to-citizen and direct-to-farmer policy-benefit delivery, digital services for elderly residents, oversight of ride-hailing compliance, and mediation-dispute triage. Tianjin's own housing and urban-rural development commission cited the platform as a 'digital city excellence case' in a 2023 report. All facts here are the operator's own account; no independent evaluation of the platform's effect on service delivery was found.

Live 📅 since 2021

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📖 Terms in this entry: Adaptive traffic signals · Civic participation platform · Digital identity

Sources

↗ Smart City Team: Tianjin City Brain launch ('1+5+N' framework)Describes the 20 May 2021 launch at the World Intelligence Congress and the '1+5+N' structure with the five named dashboards and named application scenarios.
↗ Tianjin Housing & Urban-Rural Development Commission: 'digital city excellence case' recognitionConfirmed to exist and cover the City Brain award via search results (title: '天津“城市大脑”获评数字城市“卓越案例”'); direct fetch returned 403.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Tianjin City Brain” — Tianjin, China. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/tianjin-city-brain/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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