In the context of extreme weather and frequent emergencies, strengthening the integration of resilient cities and smart cities will comprehensively enhance the resilience of cities and promote the modernization, digitalization, standardization, and sustainability of urban management. Smart resilient cities refer to integrating the new-generation information technology and dispatching systems of smart cities in city construction, thus to strengthen cities' full-cycle resilience capacity to cope with major emergencies. This study elaborates the implication and development values of smart resilient cities, and analyses the challenges faced in smart resilient city construction. Moreover, it proposes a framework, ecology, pathways, and assessment indicators for smart resilient city construction, and clarifies the development elements and modes. Furthermore, we propose the following suggestions: (1) increasing public financial investment to upgrade infrastructure construction, (2) establishing sound emergency laws and regulations to improve social governance systems, (3) focusing on intelligent information technology construction to pursue technology-enabled development, and (4) playing a coordinating role of the government to promote multi-dimensional collaboration and governance, thereby driving the construction of smart resilient cities and supporting high-quality urban development.