Smart city construction is a new project of renewing urban facilities based on the development of information communication technology (ICT). Because of using personal intelligent devices, clouding computing and big data in the process of smart city implementation, new life style will emerge and spread over urban and rural areas. Smart urban management ideas and practices will be new challenges to the goal of improving the quality of life, whose slogan is better city, better life. This paper introduces the concept of smart city, relevant institutional renovation and future tasks of urban planning in China.

information communication technology  /  big data  /  conventional statistic survey  /  planning support  /  urban facility and management