Xiong'an New Area

Xiong'an 雄安新区
State-level new area
Xiong'an New Area
Location of Xiong'an New Area in Hebei
Country	China
Province	Hebei
District Gov't Established	2017
Government
• Interim Party Secretary	Chen Gang
Area
• Total	100 km2 (40 sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Xiong'an New Area (simplified Chinese: 雄安新区; traditional Chinese: 雄安新區; pinyin: Xióng'ān Xīnqū) is a state-level new area in the Baoding area of Hebei, China. Established in April 2017, the area is located about 100 km southwest of Beijing. Its main function is to serve as a development hub for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (Jingjinji) economic triangle. Additionally, "non-core" functions of the Chinese capital are expected to migrate here, including offices of some state-owned enterprises, government agencies, and research and development facilities.

The area covers the contemporary counties of Xiong, Rongcheng and Anxin. Its name is a compound of the first elements of the names of the two counties: Xiong and Anxin. The construction of the area is described as part of the "millennium strategy" (千年大计). Unlike other "new areas", Xiong'an's development takes place under the direct oversight Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. The temporary government office of the New Area is located in a hotel in Rongcheng.

China's central government was considering to relocate a number of Beijing's administrative and back-office functions to Baoding, as Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, told to US former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson personally in July 2014, and said this idea was his "own personal initiative", according to Paulson's memoir Dealing with China.

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