Yanbu, Dhu-AlHijjah 22, 1438, September 13, 2017, SPA --The Royal Commission of Yanbu has won award for the Best International Project among 17 ones presented at Huawei Connect International Conference 2017 held in Shanghai, China. The Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Commission Dr. Alaa bin Abdullah Nassif, presented a working paper on the Smart City of Yanbu Industrial City as the first smart city in the Kingdom in which he reviewed a group of achievements accomplished in the Smart City project and their reflections on several domains such as encouraging investment, reducing the energy costs and improving the quality of life in cities, pointing to the role of smart cities in monitoring the basic infrastructure such as roads, technical systems, communications, environment and sustainable energy to achieve the optimum degree of quality and to attract more industrial investments as the Royal Commission seen as one of pioneering industrial cities in the world and the first smart industrial city. The Royal Commission has recently signed two agreements with Huawei company, whereas the first one for establishing the Innovation Center for Smart City Services, while the other one for establishing Huawei Training Center in Yanbu Industrial City in order to accelerate the implementation of smart cities in line with the Kingdom's vision 2030. --SPA 13:37 LOCAL TIME 10:37 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w486569