Xiongan area to be role model

Standing Committee consensus: Innovation will drive development

The Xiongan New Area should become a city of innovation and a role model to promote high-quality development across the country, according to an official release after a meeting on Thursday chaired by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

It was decided that a digital city should be planned and built simultaneously in Xiongan, after the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee listened to briefings about the planning compilation of the new area.