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    Vice premier stresses Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration

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    Beijing Zoo wholesale market's departure schedule announced

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    24 intercity railways to link Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei

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    Road map for proposed industrial cluster

   

Regions vow to step up smog control

Beijing will double the number of air-quality monitoring stations and mobilize more monitoring vehicles to facilitate forecasts and promote effective smog control, the capital's deputy mayor said on Thursday.

Tongzhou population to be capped at 2 million

Beijing has set a population cap of 2 million for the high-profile Tongzhou district, its municipal subsidiary administrative center, to ensure the center's healthy growth, the capital's deputy mayor said on Thursday.

Focus

  • Relocation Transferring the nonessential functions out of Beijing
  • Industrial upgrading Industrial coordination will achieve regional breakthroughs.
  • Transport integration 24 intercity railway lines will be built to link Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
  • Environmental protection The region faces severe challenges from environmental issues.
  • Public service Regional public service integration and social development
  • People New opportunities for talent communication and exchange

News

  • New town plan advances in Beijing

    Demolition of old houses in Beijing's Tongzhou District has been completed in preparation for construction of a new subsidiary administrative center.

  • Greater Beijing area to have world-class national parks

    A world-class cluster of national parks encircling Beijing, constituting an ecological system of national parks and forest wetlands will be built.

  • Greater efforts in combating air pollution

    Beijing will allocate 30 billion yuan ($4.70 billion) over the next three years for air pollution control in the city's southern area.

  • Markets relocated to reduce traffic jams

    Beijing has moved thousands of wholesale booths and shut down 315 polluting factories in the first three quarters of this year.

  • Vocational schools refocus

    Beijing, with Tianjin and Hebei province, is transforming courses in secondary vocational schools and exploring a new model to recruit students.

  • Beijing-Zhangjiakou rail project approved

    The central government has approved plans for a 58.41-billion-yuan ($9.22 billion), 174-kilometer, Beijing-Zhangjiakou, northern Hebei province, high-speed rail project.

  • Airports to help fuel traffic integration

    As part of the transportation integration process in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster, local authorities have strengthened efforts to improve the civil aviation network to enable it to meet customer demand.

  • Integration aims to foster regional cooperation

    To get a better understanding of the grand project to integrate development of Beijing and neighboring Tianjin Municipality and Hebei province, one has to start with the country's ongoing transformation of the regional development pattern in which "competition" used to play a dominant role.

Editor's note

  • China has set goals for more coordinated Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (or Jing-Jin-Ji in their abbreviations) regional development in the next 15 years mainly by transferring non-essential functions of Beijing as the national capital to neighboring areas, an official document said.

    By 2017, major breakthroughs in transportation integration, environmental protection and industrial upgrading in the integrated region will be achieved.

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