Stories of High-Quality Development | Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy breaks traditional fragmented regional planning, achieving synergistic effects

Narrator: Liu Jia, deputy director of the Reform and Development Bureau of Xiong'an New Area

"When people move to a different city for work and life, will their salary remain the same? What about their children's education? Can the medical resources keep up?" These cross-provincial livelihood concerns are widely shared by the public. How can these problems be solved?

During the coordinated advancement of the Xiong'an New Area across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, we worked on the public welfare and livelihood guarantees and the overall planning in parallel. Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei have implemented cross-regional policy coordination, service sharing, and resource allocation to ensure that relocated organizations and personnel can enjoy "move-in readiness," and settle seamlessly, stay sustainably, and thrive assuredly in Xiong'an.

Take the "Yikatong" of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei as an example. Since the signing of a cooperation framework agreement on the Yikatong service for social security cards in December 2023, integration of social security cards across the three regions — allowing for cross-provincial use, multiple functions, and both online and offline applications — has accelerated. Today, 117 million residents in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei can use a single social security card for medical treatment, purchasing medication, transportation and cultural activities in all three regions.

A series of documents closely related to the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region have been rolled out, reinforcing public confidence in cross-regional relocation. Since 2023, Xiong'an New Area has attracted 104 Class II and III subsidiaries of centrally-administered SOEs. Centrally-administered SOEs have established over 300 branches in Xiong'an. In addition, more than 4,000 Beijing-based enterprises have settled here. In 2024, the number of children of relocated personnel attending schools in Xiong'an increased by 89.5 percent year-on-year. Over the past eight years, Xiong'an New Area has grown steadily, serving as a vivid example of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy and the synergistic effects it has achieved.

The integrated transportation network is being developed at an accelerated pace, the joint development and sharing of public services is advancing in depth, and ecological governance mechanisms are becoming increasingly comprehensive. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is steadily advancing toward its goal of becoming a pioneer zone and demonstration area for Chinese modernization.