The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China established the strategic deployment for building transportation power, sounding the call of accelerating this process, and in the 20th National Congress, a specific chapter was dedicated to the major parts of the strategic deployment including refining the technological innovation system and accelerating the implementation of innovationdriven development strategies, emphasizing the principal status of enterprise technological innovation. ′Rail transit shoulders the transportation power responsibility′, Nanning Rail Transit Group carries out the concept in complete, accurate and comprehensive manner with the forceful will to advance and the courage to break the grounds. Leading by the ′peopleoriented, smart and intelligent, artistic and aesthetic, economic and reasonable′ design concept, the first FAO (fully automatic operation) metro line in Southern China is constructed and launched, making an effective first step in smart urban rail and technological innovation field. With the rapid exploitation and networking operation of nationwide urban rail transit construction, the whole industry is encountered by the challenge of transformation, upgrading and innovation. For this purpose, author believes that it is crucial to continuously improve and develop the following aspects:
1) Take FAO as guide and promote smart urban rail from all aspects. Nanning first built FAO line in 2017 and was faced with difficulties such as new construction mode, few operating FAO line cases, high requirements of delivery safety. Through design and practice guided by goal positioning and operation scenarios, the construction goal of automated operation, smart station, reduced maintenance personnel was achieved. In recent years, under the guidance of Development Outline of Smart Urban Rail Transit in China, the pioneer cities are operating FAO lines as well as promoting smart station, intelligent operation and maintenance pilot projects and the fullaspect fullprocess development of smart urban rail. With the development of new technology, we should handle the relationship between smart urban rail commonality and personality in a better way, highlighting the regional features according to reality. Based on this, Nanning is now building the ′1124 N′ smart urban rail system architecture. All smart urban rail systems within the range are under a unified system of standards. Four core business of smart service, intelligent operation, intelligent operationmaintenance, smart management are supported on the foundation of cloud platform and big data platform, realizing N types of application projects including the holographical cognition, interconnected amalgamation, smart diagnosis and active decisionmaking of every core business. Meanwhile, ′greensmart coalescence′ is carried out with reference to the Action Plan of China Urban Rail Transit Green Urban Rail Development, forming the safe, convenient, highly efficient, green, economic new generation smart urban rail system.
2) Use technological innovation as a grapple to reveal the path for enterprise high quality development. Technology is the primary productive force, and to truly make enterprises the principal of technological innovation decisionmaking, research and development investment, science organization and breakthroughs and research result commercialization, it is necessary to consolidate the principal status of enterprise technological innovation and deepen the integration of production, education and research lead by enterprises. Nanning fully integrates the resource factors including capital, industry, technology, talents and application scenarios and carries out the ′1+1+1+N′ technological innovation system construction, which is referring to 1 innovation platform, 1 technological innovation firm, 1 hightech industry park and a series of technology enterprises to further strengthen the development and application of new products and technologies in smart, intelligent, green and energysaving aspects. Talents are the primary resource, and Nanning Rail Transit is proactively exploring cooperative establishment of industry college and craftsmanship college with higher education and vocational education schools, and is building studying abroad destinations to Association of Southeast Asian Nations, highlevel talent training bases and human resource regional training bases. Technological innovation takes the lead and exerts efforts in building a ′mass public transport′ service system with rail transit as backbone, regular transit as base and skyshuttle bus, taxi/online ridehailing, shared bike and pedestrian as auxiliary means for interchange, elevating the operation service ability and level of public transport system.
3) Regard the reformation of stateowned enterprises as a trigger to promote rail transit equipment domestication and independent development. Enterprise digital and smart transformation aligns with the essence of reconstructing production forces and relations. To research, develop and apply selfowned intellectual property, domesticated technologies and products is necessary for new era development. According to the principle of ′adaptive to site, exploitative innovation, audacious exploration, decisive implementation′, Nanning has put forward requirements to associated enterprises about actively transforming into stateowned capital investment companies and technology companies, so that industries are gathered by investment and talents are attracted by industry. By actively participating in major industries such as new energy, electronic information, highend equipment manufacture, developing innovative products and promoting the commercialization of them, the production and industrialization are realized. By extension, complementation and strengthening of chains in upper, middle, lower level of industries including rail transit planning, design, construction and operation, through convergence of ′4chain′, industry chain, innovation chain, talent chain and capital chain, the passage of technology and economy merged development is broken through and innovationdriven technology enterprises are built, promoting rail transit equipment domestication and independent application and development.
Nanning Rail Transit Group will continuously strive for the goal of forging the excellency of city comprehensive service provider, on board for a journey through hardship and endeavor, towards the future and beyond in high spirits and hopes. To actively serve and blend into the new development layout, it is urgent to take hold of the policy window period of infrastructure construction comprehensive strengthening and the strategic opportunity stage of technological and industrial revolution, so that a practical path that accounts for the corporation highquality development is paved. In the effort to write a new chapter of Nanning modernization construction in the groundbreaking era and to open up a new world of the marvelous Guangxi through diligent work, more constructive contribution will be dedicated to comprehensively build this modern socialist country.