Xi Jinping pushes Xiongan to embrace science and technology to build ‘city of the future’

In a trip to Xiongan New Area, Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for the area to be transformed into an innovation hub to spark high-quality development in a project intended to take pressure off China’s capital, Beijing. It was the president’s first inspection tour to the “city of the future” after the country’s “two sessions” annual parliamentary meetings and the launch of China’s 15th five-year plan. During an inspection on Monday of the area in Hebei province, about 100km (62 miles)...

By Phoebe Zhang