China’s $580BN New City “Xiong’an”

China is building a $580 billion USD city of the future south of Beijing. Named Xiong’an, the city will help alleviate pressure from Beijing by absorbing its non-essential capital functions. Designed as a green, smart city, it will also hopefully fuel innovation and improve the quality of life of Chinese citizens. The city will cover over 1,000 square kilometers of land in Rongcheng, Xiong and Anxin counties. Eventually, it is hoped Xiong’an will add 298 billion dollars to the region’s GDP and host 1.5 million people. Since construction started in 2017, the project has progressed significantly. A train station, huge neighborhood, schools, and business/citizen service centers are all finished. Many other projects are underway or in planning. In the future, Xiong’an will certainly rise from the rural farmland of northern China. Whether it will succeed and become a world-class smart city, we will just have to wait and see.

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[seanlee]

The fact that the US military budget for 1 year is more than the cost of constructing a futuristic green city really goes to show the priorities of some countries

[redwoodpartisan]

It’s been so long. But so worth the wait! Good to see you again Futurology, always got great content! What’s next?

[CrashFrontier]

I'm glad I came across this channel! Excited for the next video.

[eyasulegesse]

damn they are spending the entire proposed budget for infrastructure in USA just in one city

[KrazeDiamond]

Xiong'An is also being built as a "sponge city" that's capable of absorbing flood water. And btw, the "ghost cities" shown in the past had already been filled up. China always plans very far ahead, not when a need arises.

Also a fun fact: Over 70% of China's politicians are engineers; around 20% educators, doctors, scientists. They all literally have to start from a rural village, work from the bottom up until they've excelled as a Provincial Governor, then they might become qualified to be selected to enter the Central Government based on merit and performance.

[_TehTJ_]

Xi Xingping is just playing Cities Skylines at this point

[momcilopucar]

🇨🇳CHINA👍 is Humanity leader and will lead Humanity to future endless progress and prosperity!!👍

[urangames]

I am glad you are still uploading videos. Also even tho this project has some major problems i feel like this one could actualy have some success.

[ridoanislam]

Damn....
China's new city’s budget is bigger than Bangladesh's 409B dollar economy.
As expected from China. 🇨🇳💜🇧🇩

[davidxu]

The map of China is missing the province Taiwan!

[orbitalpotato]

3:45 So that's just 25% of the Afghanistan war budget...

[MrTnylam]

Of course it will succeed. That's what you get with smart people running your government. Planning and achieving goals not just about things.

[bp]

maybe it would be a bit better if your background music wasn't as loud as your voice
after 4:25 this was particularly noticable

[DennisTheInternationalMenace]

00:38 Queens, NY and Newyork, NY is the same damn thing. Queens is a borough in the city of Newyork, NY. And Queens is 1 of the cheapest of all 5 boroughs.
That list is messed up!

[andrewwsloane]

I love seeing positive ideas. It looks good. I wish the best for china. We are all learning, arn't we.... The future can be bright, and we can build it

[youngzo]

If the show “MEGA-STRUCTURES” was still on the History Channel, this would probably make on there. I miss that show

[tang_hongwei]

I was just recently interested in this new high-tech city planning. I am very happy to learn the basics from this video.

[mohannair]

Wish this and similar projects all the very best

[revinhatol]

Welcome back with a greatly interesting new video!

[U.K.N]

Alright I’m learning chinese to head there