On December 1, 2023, Xiong'an New Area Business Service Center. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mu Yu.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 25 (Reporter Wang Jian, Zhang Tao, Ma Yujie) The romantic imagination of human beings for the future city is being put into practice in the Xiong'an New Area.
Driving south from Beijing to the Jingxiong Expressway, which has just been fully opened to traffic, this is a "smart road" - light poles that automatically adjust their brightness according to weather and traffic conditions, active spraying intelligent snow melting and deicing systems, and intelligent driving lanes make travel more "silky".
This is also a road to the "future", driving more than 100 kilometers, you will arrive at the "city of the future" - Xiong'an.
The neat roads crisscross the city, brand new residential buildings, office buildings, shopping malls, and hotels stand majestically, and landmark buildings such as the Xiong'an Business Service Center and the Xiong'an Urban Computing Center are like ......rainbowsWho would have thought that just a few years ago, this was a farmland village.
In the past 7 years, from a piece of land, to a map, and then to a city, Xiong'an has undergone tremendous changes.
In April 2017, in order to relieve Beijing's non-capital functions and promote the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, China decided to establish the Xiong'an New Area in Hebei Province. Not only that, China also plans to build Xiong'an into an innovative, green, smart and livable city full of science and technology, without the "big city disease", which embodies China's thinking about a better future for mankind.
Xiong'an Science and Technology Innovation Center (drone**) taken on February 7 by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mu Yu.
Driving on a main road in the Rongdong area of Xiong'an New Area, when the first traffic light you encounter turns green, drive at a constant speed of 40 kilometers per hour, and the traffic lights you encounter all the way are green. Drivers who are new to the market will mistakenly think that they are "lucky" when faced with the "green light all the way".
This is the result of the system making corresponding adjustments to the timing of traffic lights after collecting data such as road traffic flow and congestion index.
In the Rongdong area of Xiong'an New Area, the Xiong'an Urban Computing Center, which has an arched building façade and a "big eye" shape, is the central "brain" of "Xiong'an on the cloud". Walking into the "Eye of Xiong'an", you can see what is happening in all corners of the city: which road has a large traffic flow? Is there anything unusual in the underground pipe gallery? Are the bins in the neighborhood full? On a huge electronic screen, the urban operation data of the entire Xiong'an New Area is displayed in real time.
While Xiong'an is building a physical city, a digital city is also growing together. Yuan Xiaodong, chief technology officer of Xiong'an Cloud Network Technology, said.
Just across the road from the city's computing center, a robot barista is busy brewing coffee for customers at the Migu Coffee Shop in the Xiong'an Business Service Center.
According to Wang Ying, the store manager, the "high-tech coffee" here is very attractive to young people, and since it opened in October last year, the highest daily sales have reached about 500 cups.
In the café, you can often see groups of young people holding coffee in their hands to talk about business and ideas. Some people say that in Xiong'an, a vibrant city, cafes have also become an inspiration paradise for entrepreneurs.
It is understood that Xiong'an New Area focuses on the development of a new generation of information technology, biomedicine, new materials and other industries, and has built more than 10 industrial innovation platforms, including Xiong'an Zhongguancun, attracting a large number of science and technology enterprises.
Xu Mengchao started a biotech business in Beijing and recently set up a branch in Xiong'an. He said that the company's business is in line with the future development direction of Xiong'an, and the cost of starting a business here is low, there are many preferential policies, and the living environment is good.
On September 20, 2023, a corner of Yuerong Park, Xiong'an New Area. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Cheng.
Indeed, Xiong'an is not only full of innovation, but also a green and livable city.
Walking into Xiong'an Yuerong Park, one step at a time, it is like being in a classical garden. In spring and summer, the pavilions, cloisters, water pavilions, stacked rocks and mountains and lush greenery are blended together, intertwined into a picture of "the city is in the forest, and the people are in the scene".
"Plant green first, then build the city" is the construction concept that Xiong'an adheres to: create a good space intertwined with blue and green, and then gently "put" the city into it. On the one hand, Xiong'an has increased the pollution control of Baiyangdian Lake, and on the other hand, it has afforested 47The 50,000 acres of "Millennium Forest" make the city greener and more beautiful. The proportion of blue-green space is stable at 70%, and people go out to see greenery, 300 meters into the park, 1 km into the forest belt, and 3 kilometers into the forest - this is the goal of building a green Xiong'an.
Just after the Spring Festival, the construction site of the start-up area of Xiong'an New Area was busy, and Sinochem Building maintained the construction rate of "growing taller" one floor every 7 days; The main structure of China Huaneng Headquarters Building has been capped; The east-west axis, the Xiongxin high-speed railway, the Beijing-Xiongxiong express line and other projects are speeding up the construction ......
On February 7, the construction site of Xiong'an Intercity Station and International Trade Center project. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mu Yu.
In 2010, the World Expo was held in Shanghai, the country's most modern city, for the first time, and dreamers from all over the world were looking forward to the future under the theme of "Better City, Better Life". More than a decade later, in the 1,770-square-kilometer area of northern China, the land area of three New York cities, the "City of the Future" is being built at an incredible scale and speed.
*:Xinhua.