Tianjin - not just a port but high-tech HQ

My earliest memories of Tianjin are of a laid-back major port city in northern China famous for its Europeanstyled neighborhoods and "crosstalk" (a traditional Chinese performing art featuring two artistes having a comedic dialogue).

In May 2018, however, I had to update those memories urgently, drastically, after I attended the 2nd World Intelligence Congress in the city. Tianjin is truly the capital of China's high-tech industry.

The municipality applies a wide range of intelligent technologies in not only business but the emerging e-governance sector, and civil services. The beneficiaries of this approach are both the local government and the residents.