Photo taken on March 31, 2022, shows the business service center in Xiongan New Area, North China's Hebei province. [Photo/Xinhua]
China announced plans to establish Xiongan New Area on April 1, 2017, to relieve Beijing of functions non-essential to its role as the national capital and advance the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
By the end of 2021, construction has begun on 177 key projects in Xiongan, with a total investment of 618.4 billion yuan ($97.2 billion). Sixty of them have been completed. So far, the major roads to the city, the main streets in the city, the Ecological Corridor, and the urban water system have taken shape.
