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Foreign investors looking for opportunity in Xiongan

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2018-04-02 09:52CGTN Editor: Gu Liping ECNS App Download
This aerial photo taken on March 29, 2018 shows a village amid the Baiyangdian lake in Xiongan New Area, north China's Hebei Province. (Xinhua/Yang Shiyao)

This aerial photo taken on March 29, 2018 shows a village amid the Baiyangdian lake in Xiongan New Area, north China's Hebei Province. (Xinhua/Yang Shiyao)

This April marks the first anniversary of the establishment of the Xiongan New Area. And, since last October, the new area has had the authority to manage and register foreign-funded companies.

The Xiongan New Area is currently a two-hour drive from Beijing, but that is soon to be shortened to just a half-hour on high-speed rail as the construction of a rail link between Beijing and Xiongan in under way. The new area is measured to about 2,000 square kilometers – three times the size of New York city by land. And the new area has been attracting attention from businesses outside China.

"We, the UK, through Canary Wharf, signed a memorandum earlier this year at the time when the prime minister was here. It's a huge city and really focuses on modern technology and modern innovation and creative that goes with it." Said Charles Bowman, the Lord Mayor of the City of London.

The Xiongan New Area serves as a special economic zone connecting Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province. And the government aims to move Beijing's non-capital functions into the new area. During this year's Two Sessions, China's National Development and Reform Commission said that projects from around the world that met the requirements of the non-capital functions from Beijing and other high quality developments are welcome.

Professor Zhou Wenhai, a finance professor from the Hebei University of China, which is only about fifty kilometers away from the new area, said he has witnessed growing interest from abroad in the new area.

"Officials, business leaders and scholars from abroad have been visiting Xiong'an and seeking business opportunities, especially in high-end industries such as artificial intelligence and green finance. Xiongan can offer them a stable political environment as well as access to an estimated local market of 100 million people in the Beijing-Tianjing-Hebei Triangle region. They can even move beyond that and reach the rest of China and the rest of the world." Said Professor Zhou.

Zhou also added that the capital and expertise from foreign investors are also needed in Xiongan to meet its goal of becoming an international smart city of the future.

(By CGTN's Xu Xinchen)

  

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