Xiong’an New Area, which was established on April 1, 2017, as a new area of national significance after the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and the Pudong New District in Shanghai, and was officially touted as a “millennium plan and a national event”. Officials say they are spending 30 trillion RMB to “build a city of the future” to decentralize universities, hospitals and central enterprises from Beijing’s non-capital functions, with the goal of becoming China’s “vice capital”. The city will have a startin
