THE CITY OF TOMORROW

Tech meets wetlands as a visionary urban center rises, Deng Zhangyu and Zhang Yu report in Xiong'an.

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Half futuristic tech hub, half ecological and traditional retreat — that's Xiong'an New Area — a smart city rising from North China's Hebei province since 2017. Built to ease Beijing's non-capital functions, it is also meant to model how cities of the future might work.