President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to turn the Xiong'an New Area in Hebei province into an innovation hub in the new era and a model of promoting high-quality development.

Xi inspected the Xiong'an New Area on Monday.

According to Xinhua News Agency, he viewed construction progress in the start-up zone and visited China Huaneng Group Co., Ltd. and the Xiong'an campus of Beijing No. 4 High School to learn about the development of the area.

Xi greeted staff from organisations relocated as part of the projects to relieve Beijing of functions non-essential to its role as capital, which have moved in or are under construction, Xinhua reported.

He also chaired a symposium on further advancing the high-quality construction and development of the area.


Edited by Edmond Fong