China Smart Eco-Cities Framework is a 25-year strategic plan that leads to maximizing energy, water, land, and material conservation, reducing pollution, optimizing transportation, protecting the environment, and improving building comfort, health and safety, and it's a critical stage for accelerating industrialization, urbanization and rural development. China Smart Cities Framework has 13 Megacity suburban development plans including Chengdu, Fuzhou, Shanghai, Kunming, Qingdao, Chongqing, Tianjin, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, Wuhan, Wuxi, Shenzhen. Smart eco-cities and smart towns are firmly committed under the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, project numbers 71461-137-115 and 71461-137-020. 

It is estimated that between 2010 and 2025, 250 million people will relocate from rural areas to urban areas. In 2030, 1 billion out of 1.4 billion Chinese will live in cities, with 3 to 13 megalopolises. Party by the Chinese government in its 12th Five-Year Plan issued in 2013. In the years since, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Yinchuan and Hangzhou have become notable examples of older urban areas that have received smart city makeovers. Of the 1,000 smart city projects currently being built worldwide, China has half of them. China is fully engaged in implementing smart city initiatives to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of its rapidly growing cities, providing citizens with improvements in transportation, communication, environmental management and crime prevention.