Model for coordinated development

This year's Government Work Report said that "major progress was made in boosting the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region". In the years since the central government put forward the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development plan, local authorities have taken a series of measures, including working on key issues such as top design, to help shift Beijing's noncapital functions to neighboring locations, integrating the region's transport network and better strengthening environmental protection.

The central government approved the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development plan outline in April 2015, and published the final plan in 2016. And on April 1, 2017, the central authorities announced the plan to develop Xiongan New Area in Hebei province as part of the larger Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei development plan.

Between 2014 and 2017, Beijing shifted or shut down many of its non-capital functions, including 594 special markets and 1,992 general manufacturing enterprises, with 3,860 of its industrial units being relocated to Hebei. As a result, Beijing's permanent resident population declined by 22,000 in 2017 and 165,000 in 2018.