Plans on for big city cluster with capital at core

NDRC: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region set for more coordinated development

China is considering building a global city cluster in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region — and more steps to further promote the coordinated development of the region are in the offing, according to the country's top economic regulator.

Guo Lanfeng, a member of the CPC Leadership Group of the National Development and Reform Commission, pledged further steps to promote high-quality development in the region's key areas, in a bid to create a world-class city cluster with Beijing as the core.

"We will formulate and introduce policy measures to support the high-quality development of Tianjin's Binhai New Area, continue to do a good job in the coordinated high-quality development of (Beijing's sub-center in) Tongzhou district and neighboring Sanhe city, Xianghe county and Dachang Hui autonomous county in Hebei province," he said at a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday.