A New City

On March 24, 2016, a report was given to the president on the creation of a “subsidiary center” for Beijing and an area where non-capital functions would be relocated from the capital. The subsidiary center will be located in the eastern suburb of Tongzhou while Xiongan is the other area.

Xi stressed that Beijing is at a historic juncture. Tongzhou and Xiongan will form two “wings” of the city and create new growth engines for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

On May 27, 2016, Xiongan appeared for the first time in a report reviewed at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.

Calling it a “major historic and strategic decision” that would be “crucial for the millennium to come,” Xi said the subsidiary center of Beijing and Xiongan would stand the test of history and be the legacy of this generation of CPC members.

People will see Xiongan, the Pudong New Area in Shanghai and the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in Guangdong Province forming a ladder from north to south across the map of China to act as testbeds for