Abstract: A new supervision mode is urgently called upon as the traditional command-control mode can not meet the needs of the current new formats in the context of modern information society with rapid development of science and technology. Smart supervision, born at the right moment, is not a simple sense of traditional regulation plus Internet technology, a traditional view, but a new concept and mode as it adheres to the supervision concept of “macro supervision”, i.e. an advocacy to diversification of supervision subjects and means, and to a combination of different tools to achieve a win-win situation between the regulators and the regulated with the least intervention and the lowest cost. This paper, based on analyzing and clarifying the origin and concept of smart supervision, innovatively proposes a typological analysis framework, i.e. to analyze in terms of two categories of “Zhi (Technology)” and “Hui (cooperation)”-the two combined mean “Zhihui” (smart) in Chinese; the regulatory practice, in terms of the level of supervision technology and cooperation, is divided into four types: traditional, technical, cooperative and smart. A classification and comparison of the cases studies of smart supervision reform conducted by local governments in the field of food safety tells the differences in the practice of smart supervision reform, followed by some suggestions for promoting the development of smart supervision in China: we should rely on the information technology development dividend in the Internet era to achieve a new mode, more refined, more responsive and based on the incentive mechanism of regulatory objects, with an aim to make the mode truly intelligent, thus improving the efficiency of intelligent supervision.

Key words: smart supervision, food safety supervision, technical supervision, all-round supervision