The theme of this Competition is “Mapping a New Vision for Smart Cities · Advancing toward the Future through Integrated Innovation.” Eight competition tracks have been established to form an end-to-end competition framework covering the entire chain of “data acquisition - processing and analysis - industry applications.” The tracks cover Smart City Innovation Applications, AI-Empowered Smart City Governance, Remote Sensing and Digital Twins, BIM + Smart City Digital Twin Applications, Digital and Intelligent Empowerment for Urban Renewal, Integration of the Low-Altitude Economy and Smart Cities, Intelligent GIS Applications, and Integration of Data Elements and Smart City Applications. The Competition aims to stimulate participants’ innovative potential in frontier areas of smart city development and accelerate the transformation of technological achievements into practical applications.

1.To ensure that the evaluation process is fair, impartial, standardized, and orderly, an Expert Evaluation Committee will be established.
2.The Competition comprises three main stages: eligibility review, preliminary evaluation, and final evaluation.
（1）Eligibility Review: The Competition Organizing Committee will review the eligibility of all entries. Entries that fail to meet the participation requirements will be eliminated.
（2）Preliminary Evaluation: Eligible entries will be scored by evaluation experts. Entries will be ranked by score, and a prescribed proportion will advance to the final evaluation.
（3）Final Evaluation: Teams whose entries advance to the final will participate in an online defense. Members of the Evaluation Committee will score the teams on the basis of their presentations and responses, after which the winning entries and corresponding awards will be determined.

1.Intellectual Property
      All ideas, proposals, and related intellectual property developed or submitted by participating teams during the Competition shall remain the property of the respective teams, and the organizer undertakes to fulfill its confidentiality obligations. Each participating team shall ensure that the ideas, proposals, and related materials it provides are protected by intellectual property rights owned by the team. The organizer shall have the right of first priority to arrange investment matchmaking and product-incubation services for participating entries. The organizer may use the submitted entries, related information, and team information in promotional materials, relevant publications, releases by designated or authorized media, displays on the official website, exhibitions, including touring exhibitions, and other Competition-related activities.
2.Fair Competition
      No entry may infringe any third party’s intellectual property rights or other lawful rights. Any entry found to involve infringement, either through independent discovery or following a substantiated claim by a rights holder, will be disqualified. The organizer shall bear no liability for any actual infringement arising from a participating team’s use of the ideas, proposals, or related materials supplied or completed by that team, or for any allegation of infringement made by a third party in connection with such use.
3.Organizer’s Statement
      The Competition Organizing Committee reserves the right to amend the Competition rules, determine whether cheating has occurred and impose corresponding sanctions, and withdraw or decline to grant awards to participating teams whose conduct undermines the organization or fairness of the Competition.