No high-rise project in new economic zone

BEIJING: China will ban largescale property development including towering skyscrapers in an ambitious new economic zone near Beijing, the leading local Communist Party official wrote in an editorial in the People’s Daily yesterday. “Every inch of land” in the Xiongan New Area would be carefully and deliberately planned, wrote Zhao Kezhi, party chief of Hebei province, where Xiongan is located. Agencies