On March 30, the "AI for All: China–ASEAN Super League" Smart City Development and Innovation Competition, jointly organized by the Guangxi Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Department of Education, the Federation of Trade Unions, and the Nanning Municipal Government, concluded successfully in Nanning.
As China's first ASEAN-oriented competition dedicated to "AI + urban development," the event attracted 1,382 submissions from all 10 ASEAN countries and 25 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions across China.
The SCPP–RDSC team from the Research and Development Unit for Smart City Solution (RDSC) at Mahasarakham University, Thailand, stood out in the university category with its Smart City Planning Platform (SCPP), developed based on SuperMap GIS. The team was awarded third prize, becoming the only Thai-led university team to receive an award in this category.
The SCPP is an innovative digital platform developed by RDSC. Built on SuperMap GIS and deeply integrated with artificial intelligence technologies, it supports continuous eva1uation, dynamic monitoring, and adaptive governance in urban planning, aligning with the statutory planning framework defined by the Town and City Planning Act B.E. 2562 (2019).
The platform has already been piloted in an official urban planning assessment project in Maha Sarakham Province, Thailand. Leveraging AI-based change detection and GIS-driven land-use compliance analysis, it can identify unauthorized residential expansions in near real time.
The platform's 2026 peer-reviewed publication (Boonlua et al.) d0cumented a 100% alert-to-action rate across 20 governance meetings over 300 days — demonstrating its direct institutional impact.
Screenshot of the SCPP platform interface
This award marks a significant milestone in collaborative innovation between Chinese and Thai enterprises and universities in the fields of smart cities and geospatial information. Under the Memorandum of Understanding between RDSC and SuperMap, the SCPP platform will be gradually promoted to Guangxi University Town and other urban centers across ASEAN.
It is expected to further strengthen China–ASEAN cooperation in smart city development and inject sustained technological momentum into high-quality Smart ASEAN initiatives.
