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Greenland Hongqiao Digital Intelligence Port is a large mixed-use complex developed by Greenland Group's Real Estate Division Two in 2020 at the Jishengweibang furniture city site in the Qingpu West Software and Information Park in Shanghai, and this project is the sample district. As a key area of Shanghai's innovation-driven strategy, Greenland has formed a strategic partnership with Huawei to push technology enablement and industrial upgrading on the site. The design respects site memory, balances advantages and disadvantages, maximizes space and preserves the spirit of place, taking a Smart Cloud concept as its inspiration to inject vitality into the site. The project lies northeast of the JSWB furniture city, with Jiayue Road on the east as vehicle entry, the Xintongbotang water feature on the north, and Metro Line 17 on the northwest; it is close to the Hongqiao hub and business district and the Beidou Navigation base, laying ground for a future technology industrial park. The central challenge, under the national strategy of industrial strength and urban renewal, is to preserve the spirit of the place while inserting high-tech ideas and fusing landscape with technology to narrate the site's former and present lives. The Smart Cloud concept draws on the four features of digital office, 5G technology, information transmission, barcodes and electronic information, extracting and recomposing them into functions that produce a distinctive technology landscape integrating art, enjoyment and quality. Because paving occupies the largest area in plan and is used most heavily, it carries both practical and smart-landscape thinking: colored asphalt lines inspired by electronic circuit diagrams guide park circulation in red, yellow and blue that together add vitality and creatively link spaces. Copper-imitation wedge bricks are laid in staggered, varying heights to form undulating water features that shimmer in sunlight; three arc-shaped water walls extend the paving, and their minimalist, poetic forms deliver both visual and auditory experience. Colored steel tubes simulate bundled cables, and champagne-gold stainless steel forms QR codes, linking landscape to smart technology and producing varied light effects. The design concludes that 5G performance is unimaginable and will bring a design revolution to the urban frontage, that technology raises urban experience so that landscape no longer relies on aesthetics alone, and that technology, cognition, industry and humanity advance together as everything connects and city design renews itself.