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<\/p>\nBy Wen Hongyan, Li Zhen, Source: People\u2019s Daily<\/p>\n
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Xiong\u2019an New Area, a national-level new area in north China\u2019s Hebei province and a national model of high-quality development, is believed to be a mirror of the future China.<\/p>\n
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On April 1, 2017, China announced plans to establish Xiong\u2019an New Area in Hebei province, making it another new area of national significance following the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in south China\u2019s Guangdong province and Pudong New Area in east China\u2019s Shanghai.<\/p>\n
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Construction of the Rongxi Zone of Xiong\u2019an New Area, north China\u2019s Hebei province, is in full swing, June 20, 2021. (Photo by Jiao Yunpeng\/People\u2019s Daily Online)<\/em><\/p>\n Over the past five years, China has advanced the construction of Xiong\u2019an New Area according to high standards and quality requirements, making constant new progress in the construction and continuously bringing new looks to it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today, as the top-level design and the master plan for the new area are gradually turned into realities and the construction of the new area proceeds at full throttle, a great city begins to take shape.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n More than 200 projects are slated to enter the construction period in Xiong\u2019an New Area this year, with the total investment estimated to exceed 700 billion yuan ($110 billion). In February this year, the new area kicked off a good number of projects scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2022, including 43 key projects worth of 60.1 billion yuan, among which 16 are major ones with an investment of more than one billion yuan.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Construction of the first batch of projects designed to serve China\u2019s centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which is a part of the plan to shift Beijing\u2019s functions nonessential to its role as the capital to Xiong\u2019an New Area, as well as three industrial park projects of China\u2019s three major telecom operators, namely China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, has been comprehensively set in motion.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Major landmark projects for public service facilities in the new area, including sports center and library, have also commenced construction.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In fact, except for some basic projects and temporary buildings for essential needs, no construction task was carried out during the first more than two years since the official announcement of the establishment of Xiong\u2019an New Area.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n During that period, more than 1,000 experts from home and abroad, over 200 teams, and over 2,500 professional technicians worked tirelessly to formulate a master plan for the new city, finally drawing up a grand blueprint for the new area,\u00a0which is considered a national project of millennial significance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The blueprint has been implemented thoroughly. Xiong\u2019an New Area will be historical heritage Chinese people leave for the future generations, according to Chinese President Xi Jinping, who stressed the necessity to adhere to the ideas of \u201cglobal vision, international standards, distinctive Chinese features, and future-oriented goals\u201d in the construction of the new area so as to develop it into a demonstration zone of innovation-driven development.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Xiong\u2019an New Area is believed to be a national pacesetter of high-quality development. The new area has introduced strict regulations on the styles and features of the area and its landmarks. It has made clear that there will be no outlandish building, skyscraper, or glass curtain wall in the area. \u201cUrban diseases\u201d, such as \u201coverhead spider webs\u201d formed by unsightly power lines and telecommunications cables and \u201croad zippers\u201d caused by repeated replacement of buried pipes, are all expected to be solved in Xiong\u2019an New Area by well-designed underground pipe gallery.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the long term, the new area will be able to sustain a population of two million to 2.5 million and be equipped with high-quality resources in education and health.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAccording to our plans for the new area, all of the government-funded new construction projects and large public buildings in the area will meet the three-star standard (the highest in China) of green buildings, and a 15-minute radius community life circle will be built here,\u201d said Wang Zhigang, deputy head of the planning and construction bureau of Xiong\u2019an New Area.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe have been strictly implementing relevant high standards and quality requirements,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Xiong\u2019an New Area has been known as an eco-friendly city. During the past five years, the area has planted 454,000 mu (about 30,267 hectares) of trees, including more than 23 million trees of economic value, fruit trees, and ornamental trees, increasing the local forest coverage rate from 11 percent to 32 percent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With parks, tree belts, and forests located within 300 meters, 1,000 meters, and 3,000 meters, respectively, from residential communities, Xiong\u2019an New Area is turning the idyllic urban scenery and life that urbanites yearn for into a reality.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Driven by the innovative idea of factoryless production, the phase I project of the first integrated waste treatment facility in Xiong\u2019an New Area has built an underground waste treatment system and turned the above-ground part of the facility into a country park. By making sure the whole process of waste treatment is handled underground, the facility has reduced its impact on people in the surrounding areas to the greatest possible extent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Xiong\u2019an New Area is also a city featuring extensive application of artificial intelligence (AI). The new area is expected to build China\u2019s first urban intelligent infrastructure platform consisting of urban computing center, platform of Internet of Things (IoT), network of video monitoring systems, and City Information Modeling (CIM) platform.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Urban computing center serves as the \u201cbrain\u201d that performs the computing and storage functions for various smart administration systems of the area; IoT platform and network of video monitoring systems, which are to Xiong\u2019an New Area as \u201cnerves\u201d are to human body, are responsible for the management of IoT devices and video monitoring devices; and CIM platform is the digital twin of the new area.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Whenever a building is erected in the new area, a digital building with the same features is created on the digital platform of the area. Even the slightest change to the area, such as the replacement of a street lamp, can be simultaneously reflected on the digital platform.It\u2019s believed that Xiong\u2019an New Area will truly march toward a new stage of \u201cdigital twin cities\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The new era calls for high-quality urban development models and governance ideas. The Xiong\u2019an New Area will be built into a \u201ccity of the future,\u201d and its construction process demonstrates a systematic exploration of a new urban development paradigm. 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