According to ICF, Eric Chu, the founding mayor of the city and a national political figure, set out to transform a loose collection of suburban cities and rural land into a unified metropolis. Massive investment went into high-speed roads and rails to unite the doughnut-shaped city, while broadband advances coupled with a Knowledge-Bridge project has driven industry-university collaboration projects and provided talent and job matchmaking.

The Intelligent Community Forum announced the Top7 Intelligent Communities of 2015 on January 23, in an online event hosted by Finland's former Minister of Communications, Suvi Linden. The Top7 list included cities and towns from five different nations, three communities from the United States, one from Australia, one from Brazil, one from Canada, and one from Taiwan.

However, nominated for the Top7 Intelligent Communities of 2015 is not the final goal of Eric Chu, the Mayor hopes to win the world best Intelligent Community on June.