Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Monday called for efforts to build the Xiong'an New Area in North China's Hebei Province into an innovation hub in the new era and a model of promoting high-quality development.

Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected the Xiong'an New Area on Monday, where he also chaired a symposium on further advancing the high-quality construction and development of the new area.

‍‍The establishment of Xiong'an New Area—100km southwest of Beijing—was announced in April 2017 to relieve Beijing's nonessential capital functions and boost development in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

Dubbed the "city of the future," China aims to make it innovative, green, smart and world-class—with blue skies, fresh air and clean water—aligning with high-quality development.