Beijing: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration. Xiongan New Area. The Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. These are some of the highlights in the development of Hebei, the province that surrounds Beijing and Tianjin municipalities, over the past decade.
Hebei has become economically stronger and more environmentally sustainable, Ni Yuefeng, Secretary of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, said at a press conference on August 9.
At a meeting he chaired on February 26, 2014, President Xi Jinping underlined the importance of the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei as a major national strategy. The idea is for the region to further integrate as Beijing, which has long suffered from overcrowding, devolves functions nonessential to its role as the national capital to its neighboring cities.
Ni said Hebei has been active in taking on these functions and has accelerated its development while synergizing with and serving Beijing and Tianjin through a number of transportation, environmental protection and industrial projects. The Beijing-Zhangjiakou and Beijing-Xiongan high-speed railways have been completed, and Hebei has received nearly 40,000 enterprises and institutions that have relocated from Beijing and Tianjin. Figures from the press conference show that electronic information, biomedicine and other industrial projects relocated from Beijing and Tianjin have brought a total investment of 516.3 billion yuan ($76.6 billion).
–The Daily Mail-Beijing Review news exchang item
