Beijing, June 16 (Xinhua) - The reporter learned from China Railway First Group that recently, the "Urban Underground Space Big Data Intelligent Analysis and Public Service Platform Construction and Demonstration Application" project, declared by China Railway First Group and actively prepared by China Railway First Group Urban Rail Company, has received support from the National Development and Reform Commission's 2017 (first batch) central budget investment plan.
This project is currently the only big data project in the construction engineering field nationwide that has been approved and received special national funding support. It is also the highest-level national technological innovation and application project approved by China Railway First Group, following national and provincial-level projects such as the major funding support project from the central state-owned capital management budget, the National Development and Reform Commission's innovation capability construction project, and the Ministry of Finance's special fund project for research and development of new construction technologies.
In 2016, the national "13th Five-Year Plan" outline explicitly proposed implementing the national big data strategy and issued the "Notice of the General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission on Organizing the Implementation of Major Projects to Promote Big Data Development", making big data a foundational strategic resource and comprehensively implementing actions to promote big data development. In November of the same year, China Railway First Group's "Urban Underground Engineering Big Data Intelligent Analysis and Public Service Platform Construction and Demonstration Application" project was reviewed and approved by the general manager's office meeting and initiated the application process. With the attention and support of China Railway's leadership and science and technology authorities, the main leaders of China Railway First Group deployed and arranged the work, the technology center took the lead in organizing, relevant departments fully cooperated, and China Railway First Group Urban Rail Company actively prepared.
After a year of planning and preparation, China Railway First Group effectively integrated social resources such as Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xidian University, China Academy of Railway Sciences, and the Chinese Construction Machinery Society, and organized authoritative experts from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Informatization Expert Advisory Committee, the State Key Laboratory of Shield Tunneling and Boring Technology, the State Key Laboratory of Full-face Tunnel Boring Machines, and the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Manufacturing Systems Engineering to conduct multiple demonstrations on special plans including project construction content, investment plan, funding sources, and expected construction goals, laying a solid foundation for the successful approval of the project.
The project covers all stages of the full life cycle of urban underground engineering, including survey and design, construction, equipment manufacturing, and operation and maintenance management. Based on research and development of technologies such as perception, transmission, storage, and analysis of big data in urban underground space engineering, it carries out the construction of a big data platform for urban underground space engineering, and combines advanced technologies such as BIM, GIS, and VR to provide customized information services for various users in the industry chain and government agencies.
The implementation of this project will bring significant brand effects to the company's urban underground engineering sector, enhance China Railway First Group's core competitiveness in this field, boost the company's marketing in urban underground engineering, and is of great significance for promoting the enterprise to improve resource utilization and production efficiency, and driving innovation in the shield tunneling technology research and development system, product optimization, and transformation and upgrading. The construction of this project will play a positive role in promoting regional big data development, industry-university-research cooperation, traditional economic transformation, and the development of the urban underground space industry. It will also serve as an industry leader and demonstration for the informatization and intelligent scientific management of construction engineering.