Qualla: Xiong'an https://qualla.com/xiong-an en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/f/q/xiong-an-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Xiong'an https://qualla.com/xiong-an Xiong'an: Introduction https://qualla.com/xiong-an/ Photo credit Charlie fong, CC BY-SA 4.0. On April 1, 2017, Beijing announced it was building a new city. Not an expansion of an existing one, not a suburb, but an entirely new urban center rising from the farmland and wetlands of Hebei Province, 100 kilometers south of the capital. Within hours of the announcement, property prices in the surrounding counties soared. Real estate offices were shut down by authorities. Speculators were arrested. The government called Xiong'an a "millennium plan and a national event" -- language so grand it sounded like propaganda, until the construction cranes arrived. By the end of 2025, the area had absorbed over 400 billion yuan in completed investment, and state-owned enterprises had begun relocating their headquarters from Beijing.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/f/q/xiong-an-wp/wwfq-xiongan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Xiong'an: Blueprint for a Century https://qualla.com/xiong-an/ Photo credit N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0. Xiong'an New Area covers three counties -- Xiong, Rongcheng, and Anxin -- its name a compound of the first characters of Xiong and Anxin. Sitting at the geometric center of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei economic triangle, the city is designed to absorb functions that Beijing no longe...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/f/q/xiong-an-wp/wwfq-xiongan-blueprint-for-a-century.mp3 0:06 2 full Xiong'an: The Fifteen-Minute Life https://qualla.com/xiong-an/ Photo credit Charlie fong, CC BY-SA 4.0. Xiong'an is planned as a smart city built around a concept that urban planners worldwide have been debating for years: the fifteen-minute lifecycle, in which every good and service an urban person needs should be available within a fifteen-minute walk. Streets are designed for pe...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/f/q/xiong-an-wp/wwfq-xiongan-the-fifteen-minute-life.mp3 0:06 3 full Xiong'an: Baiyang Lake and the Ghosts of War https://qualla.com/xiong-an/ Photo credit N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0. At the heart of Xiong'an lies Baiyang Lake, the area's most significant natural feature and a landscape deeply embedded in Chinese cultural memory. Many Chinese know the lake from films and literature depicting its role during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when local residents an...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/f/q/xiong-an-wp/wwfq-xiongan-baiyang-lake-and-the-ghosts-of-war.mp3 0:06 4 full Xiong'an: Building Under Secrecy and Scrutiny https://qualla.com/xiong-an/ Photo credit N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0. The planning of Xiong'an was carried out under extraordinary confidentiality. The name first appeared in government documents in May 2016, but the public announcement did not come until nearly a year later. The preparation was deliberate: by the time the news broke, the governmen...

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