Xiong'an

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Location of the New Area Xiong'an in Hebei Province. The circles Xiong (①), Anxin (②) and Rongcheng (③) are marked in color.

Xiong'an ( Chinese  雄安新区 , Pinyin Xióng'ān Xinqu , English Xiong'an New Area ) is the name of a new administrative unit under the direct supervision of the central government, which in the northern Chinese province of Hebei as part of the metropolitan area Jingjinji arise should. It is approx. 100 km away from the cities of Beijing and Tianjin , which are directly under the government . With the establishment of the new administrative unit, the Anxin , Rongcheng and Xiong counties will merge.

On April 1, 2017, the Chinese leadership announced the establishment of the administrative unit in a document jointly approved by the Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council. The document names the relief of the Chinese capital Beijing as one of the main reasons for the initiative. Companies, especially in the high tech sector, should settle there. It is not a special economic zone but a National New Area , i. H. an administrative unit under the direct supervision of the central government, which focuses on new concepts of urbanization and sustainability. Initially, the New Area was financed by the state-owned China Development Bank with a bond of 19 billion US dollars.

Shortly after the announcement, land prices shot up.

Individual evidence

  1. 中共中央 、 国务院 决定 设立 河北 雄 安 新区. Retrieved May 10, 2017 .
  2. National New Areas 国家级 新区 guó jiā jí xīn qū. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 3, 2016 ; accessed on May 20, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / policycn.com
  3. Scott Cendrowski: China's Newly Imagined 'Green' City Gets Its First $ 19 Billion in Funding. In: Fortune . April 28, 2017, accessed September 20, 2017 .
  4. Plans for a megacity trigger an investor run. In: Spiegel Online . April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2017 .

Coordinates: 38 ° 59 ′ 37 ″  N , 115 ° 59 ′ 44 ″  E