The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China drew up a grand blueprint for comprehensively building a modern socialist country and comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and explicitly proposed accelerating the building of a cyber power and a digital China, and accelerating the development of the digital economy. The National Housing and Urban-Rural Development Work Conference just held systematically summarized the achievements of the housing and urban-rural development sector in 2023, profoundly analyzed the new situation facing the new era and new journey, and made forward-looking arrangements for the key tasks in 2024, pointing out the direction and path for the high-quality development of housing and urban-rural development undertakings.

　　The requirements of the National Housing and Urban-Rural Development Work Conference on digitalization run through the four major areas of housing and real estate, urban and rural construction, the construction industry, and foundational support. It once again issued a strong call and made overall arrangements for deepening "Digital Housing and Urban-Rural Development," clarifying the direction and path for accelerating the implementation of "Digital Housing and Urban-Rural Development."

　　The Information Center of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development unifies its thinking and actions with General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, thoroughly studies and implements the spirit of the National Housing and Urban-Rural Development Work Conference, takes the overall layout plan of "Digital Housing and Urban-Rural Development" as the development blueprint, and, with the determination to "carry one blueprint through to the end," accelerates the implementation of "Digital Housing and Urban-Rural Development" to empower the high-quality development of housing and urban-rural development undertakings.

　　Consolidate the foundation for "Digital Housing and Urban-Rural Development" and continuously unleash the potential of data elements. Promote the construction of "Digital Housing and Urban-Rural Development" data centers at the ministry, provincial, and municipal levels, aggregate foundational industry data, and form a unified foundational database. Using the national survey data on housing buildings and municipal facilities as the "base plate," guide localities in advancing the construction of the City Information Modeling (CIM) foundational platform to form a unified spatial base. Continue to deepen the integration of existing government information systems, clarify the logical linkages of business operations, identify the data "transfer links," and promote the horizontal and vertical interconnection of systems and data.

　　Advance the digital development of the housing and urban-rural development industry and build a solid informatization foundation for "Digital Housing and Urban-Rural Development." Develop digital housing for intelligent and comfortable living. Centering on the full life-cycle management of housing, coordinate the advancement of system integration and data connectivity in the housing sector, promote comprehensive applications integrating analytical assessment, regulatory early warning, and government services, and vigorously enhance the level of smart regulation and intelligent, comfortable living in the housing sector. Create intelligent, interconnected, and collaborative digital engineering. Centering on the industrialization, digitalization, and intelligentization of construction, implement full life-cycle management of engineering construction projects, advance the two-way linkage and smart regulation between the construction market and the construction site, promote the coordinated development of intelligent construction and construction industrialization, and facilitate the high-quality development of the construction industry. Build smart and resilient digital cities. Centering on the construction of livable, resilient, and smart cities, coordinate the three major links of planning, construction, and governance, increase efforts in building new-type urban infrastructure, implement actions for the intelligent construction of urban infrastructure and urban renewal actions, promote "one-network unified management" of urban operation management and services, and advance the intelligentization and resilience of urban operations. Build intelligently managed and livable digital villages and towns. Thoroughly implement the digital village construction action, and, according to the three levels of housing, village, and town, integrate existing information data, coordinate the advancement of informatization construction and digital applications, build "digital rural housing," "digital villages," and "digital small towns," and help build beautiful villages and towns that are livable and conducive to work.

　　Advance the digital transformation of government operations and improve the level of services benefiting enterprises and the public. Build a collaborative and efficient government operation mechanism, and comprehensively advance the digital transformation of the performance of duties and government operations of housing and urban-rural development departments. Optimize government services that benefit enterprises and the public, comprehensively advance "Internet Plus Government Services" in the field of housing and urban-rural development, and continue to promote improvements in the efficiency and quality of government services.

　　Strengthen support for digital development and build a multi-level guarantee system. Accelerate the research, development, and application of key software in the construction field, and promote the comprehensive application of independent and controllable BIM throughout the full life cycle of engineering. Improve the standards system for "Digital Housing and Urban-Rural Development," compile digital standardization work guidelines, and formulate digital standards for various industries and fields. Fully implement network and data security responsibilities, and establish a security guarantee system integrating institutional norms, technical protection, and operational management.

　　Do a good job in organizational guarantee work and help improve management efficiency and accelerate quality improvement. Strengthen organizational leadership. Establish and improve the staffing and institutional setup for digital construction, strengthen resource integration and synergy of forces, and formulate implementation plans according to local conditions. Innovate working mechanisms. Encourage localities to take the lead in trials and explore innovations, and establish an application promotion mechanism of "innovation in one place, sharing across many places." Guarantee funding input. Promote the inclusion of "Digital Housing and Urban-Rural Development" in government informatization plans at all levels, explore and implement the mechanism for supporting informatization funds in government-invested construction projects, and strive to increase financial support. Strengthen talent support. Relying on relevant research institutes as well as major scientific research projects and demonstration projects, increase talent cultivation efforts and establish a talent system for "Digital Housing and Urban-Rural Development." Create a good atmosphere. Encourage the holding of forums, exhibitions, and other activities on "Digital Housing and Urban-Rural Development" construction, popularize the development concept of "Digital Housing and Urban-Rural Development," and promote industry exchanges.

　　The journey of ten thousand miles has strong winds; with responsibilities weighing a thousand junctures, set sail again. The Information Center of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will take being a dedicated construction force for Chinese-style modernization as its unremitting pursuit, anchor the goal of high-quality development of housing and urban-rural development undertakings in the new stage, work solidly and vigorously implement measures, do a good job in integrating information resources, focus on enhancing the deep integration of the new generation of information technology with the housing and urban-rural development industry, and, with firm confidence and solid actions, strive to push the high-quality development of housing and urban-rural development undertakings to a new level.