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The agreement will see the two cities collaborate on infrastructure, city planning, green mobility, tech, and sustainability. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The agreement is a commitment to work together on knowledge sharing and developing new infrastructure and transport systems <\/strong>to help make the two cities smarter and more advanced. \u201cWe are confident that the agreements signed during the forum will ensure our two world-class cities become even more attractive to citizens, visitors, businesses, and investors,\u201d Chairman of Abu Dhabi\u2019s Department of Municipalities and Transport Mohamed Ali Al Shorafa said. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The forum also saw Abu Dhabi ink several other agreements <\/strong>with Chinese companies and authorities, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Establishing a laboratory and intelligent mobility command and control center in Abu Dhabi<\/strong> to monitor traffic, manage community events, and manage the city\u2019s land, sea, air and rail transport networks, in cooperation with Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning Centre;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exploring the development of a green bus depot and hydrogen complex<\/strong> to power hydrogen buses and cars by 2025, in partnership with Hong Kong private equity firm <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.templewater.com\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Templewater<\/a> ;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strengthening Abu Dhabi\u2019s IT sector and data centers<\/strong>, as well as <strong>exploring mobility solutions<\/strong> and <strong>developing a smart transport network<\/strong>, including a holographic road network, vehicle chargers, and autonomous driving, with the help of Huawei Technologies;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Decarbonizing and digitizing Abu Dhabi\u2019s public transport sector<\/strong> with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kmb.hk\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Kowloon Motor Bus Company<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi inked agreements with Huawei, Templewater, Kowloon Motor Bus, and Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1630],"tags":[1360,284,141,7,776,161,1367,888],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-89124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infrastructure","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-china","tag-department-of-municipalities-and-transport","tag-enterpriseam-uae","tag-huawei","tag-infrastructure","tag-transport","tag-uae-china-ties","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"ce4f1e44-22b5-4a6b-9dd4-33d5af5a06ac","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/2\/1553.jpg","photo_position":"below","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Abu Dhabi + Shenzhen are now twin cities. 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