Xiongan New Area Construction
On April 1, 2017, President Xi Jinping announced a plan to transform Xiongan in China’s Hebei province into a green and innovative city. The Xiongan New Area will be China’s 19th national-level new district and new economic zone.
Analysts estimate that RMB 4 trillion (US$580 billion) could be spent on building Xiongan over the next two decades as the New Area is still a rural territory. Chinese media has heralded Xiongan’s development program as “a millennium strategy”, which could see it become the next Shenzhen and Pudong, China’s main business centers.
Xiongan’s key function is to facilitate the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) integration. The New Area is in Hebei province in North China, approximately 130 km southwest of Beijing.Hebei provincial authorities will spend RMB 600 billion (US$91 billion) on building its transport infrastructure by 2020. After high-speed railway contruction, it will take only 20 minutes to travel from Xiongan to Beijing’s new airport in Daxing District, 30 minutes to Beijing and Tianjin, and an hour to Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province.
The success of Xiongan will establish a new development model for China's inland cities. The prosperity of such cities would then boost China’s Belt and Road ambitions and bring in new opportunities for foreign investors.The construction of Xiongan's basic infrastructure is expected to be completed by 2022.
In order to complete the construction on time, there are more than 1500 units tower cranes working in Xiongan new area for construction.In the construction, There are 80% new tower cranes. And most tower cranes are from ZOOMLION tower crane, YONGMAO tower cranes, SYM.
