China Advances Urban Infrastructure Lifeline Safety Projects
On December 20, 2024, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) held a meeting in Kaifeng, Henan Province, to advance urban infrastructure lifeline safety projects — the monitoring and protection of gas networks, bridges, tunnels, water supply, drainage, and utility tunnels. The meeting reviewed progress to date, shared regional experience, and set priorities for the next phase.
According to the meeting, more than half of China's cities at prefectural level and above have now established regulatory platforms covering gas, bridges, and water services. These platforms collect and analyze operational data from IoT sensing devices deployed across key lifeline sectors, providing monitoring and early warning of abnormal conditions.
The meeting asked local governments to coordinate lifeline projects with urban renewal, to integrate modern information technology into infrastructure safety monitoring, and to apply full-lifecycle management with clear departmental responsibilities and closed-loop risk handling.
Related national policy documents, 2022–2024
Report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (2022): called for urban renewal action and the creation of livable, resilient, and smart cities, with a public safety governance model oriented toward proactive prevention.
Guiding Opinions on Promoting Urban Infrastructure Lifeline Safety Projects (2023): required surveys of municipal infrastructure, particularly underground facilities, and the establishment of management information platforms with risk identification and rectification mechanisms.
Guidelines for the Construction of Urban Safety Risk Monitoring and Early Warning Platforms, 2023 Edition (2023): defined the functions of comprehensive monitoring platforms and promoted cross-departmental information sharing.
Implementation Plan for Promoting the Update of Buildings and Municipal Infrastructure Equipment (2024): promoted the installation and updating of intelligent sensing equipment for underground pipelines, bridges, tunnels, and manhole covers, together with IoT-based monitoring networks.
Opinions on Promoting the Construction of New Urban Infrastructure to Build Resilient Cities (2024): called for gradually achieving real-time monitoring, simulation, and rapid assessment of municipal infrastructure status, improving early warning of safety hazards.
For Hitelecom, these policies describe the monitoring scenarios — pipelines, bridges, tunnels, and manhole covers — that the company's pressure, level, distance, and gas sensor terminals and cloud platform are designed to serve.
Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development website, December 2024. Edited summary by Hitelecom.
