In the waiting hall of Xiongan Station in Xiongan New District, a bronze wheel attracts the attention of passengers. On the base of the wheel is engraved its name - "Millennium Wheel".

　　The "Millennium Wheel" is measured on a thousand-year scale, and the starting date is set on April 1, 2017, which is the day when the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council decided to establish the Xiongan New Area.

　　Today, Xiongan has gone through seven full years.

　　For a millennium, seven years is very short; for Xiongan, seven years has undergone a historic transformation from "a piece of land" to "a map" and then to "a city".

　　The establishment of Hebei Xiongan New Area is a millennium plan and a national event. General Secretary Xi Jinping personally made decisions, deployed, and promoted, and went to Xiongan three times to plan development.

On May 10, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Xiongan New District, Hebei.

　　For the first time, in February 2017, just after the snow, the General Secretary set off by car from Zhongnanhai and went to Anxin County, Hebei to inspect the overview of the core area of ​​the planned new area.

　　At that time, "Xiong'an New Area" was still a new term in the central government's internal documents. At the subsequent symposium, the General Secretary emphasized that the planning and construction of Xiongan New Area is a strategic choice of great historical significance. It is a historic project to relieve Beijing’s non-capital functions and promote the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.

　　The second time, in January 2019, the General Secretary came to the Xiongan New Area Planning Exhibition Center and carefully looked at the "Hebei Xiongan New Area Planning Outline" on the display board.

　　"The construction of Xiongan New Area is a thousand-year plan." said the general secretary. "In the past two years, almost no brick or tile has been moved. Now that there is a blueprint, Xiongan has moved from the top-level design stage to the substantive construction stage. Maybe this year will be in full swing. situation."

　　For the third time, in May 2023, Fuxing was racing for more than 50 minutes. The General Secretary went to Xiongan New Area to inspect high-speed rail stations, communities, construction sites, etc., and chaired a symposium on promoting the construction of Xiongan New Area with high standards and high quality.

　　The general secretary pointed out: "We must strengthen our confidence, maintain determination, work steadily, do well, and promote continuous new progress in various tasks." "Strive to build a future city without 'urban diseases', and truly implement the high-standard urban planning blueprint Turn it into a high-quality realistic picture of urban development.”

　　During the third trip to Xiongan, the determination of the "Millennium Plan" and the drive to "seize the day and night" are the key points that General Secretary Xi Jinping has always emphasized.

　　To the builders of Xiongan, the General Secretary said sincerely: "This is a historical opportunity that is once in a century. You shoulder important historical tasks, so you must work hard!" Facing the cadres and masses of Xiongan, the General Secretary exhorted: "The construction of Xiongan New Area This is a thousand-year plan, and it must be accomplished over a long period of time. We can neither be impetuous nor wait for success. We must work hard and work hard."

　　After seven years of being down-to-earth, dreams come true——

　　The "four horizontal and ten vertical" backbone road networks in the starting area are fully under construction. Four central enterprise headquarters, four universities, and two hospitals are under construction one after another. The underground city is taking shape at an accelerated pace. "Xiong'an on the Cloud" has been initially completed... The prototype of the city has emerged. , Xiongan New Area has entered a stage of large-scale construction and taking over Beijing's non-capital functions.

　　On March 27, the main structure of the Sinochem Building, one of the first batch of state-owned enterprises to be decentralized, was capped and is expected to be completed and put into use in June next year. After completion, the building will become the tallest landmark building in Xiongan New Area and can meet the office needs of more than a thousand employees. More and more central enterprise headquarters and second- and third-level subsidiaries have settled in Xiongan New Area, which has begun to drive the industry here to continue to develop and develop.

　　The CCCC Future Science and Technology Innovation City in the Xiongan New District high-speed rail station hub area has a total construction area of ​​1.4 million square meters. Its main function is to undertake the large and medium-sized enterprises and research institutes that are being relocated from Beijing.

　　In the Rongdong District Sports Park, one end of the Jucun substation is connected to the Zhangxiong UHV and the other end is connected to the Rongdong resettlement area. It is possible to use the wind from Zhangbei to light up the lights in Xiongan and use the light from the dam to illuminate the houses in the new district. , providing electricity guarantee for the large-scale development and construction of Xiongan New Area, and constantly conveying the concept of green development to the outside world.

　　The "Millennium Show Forest" has accumulated more than 470,000 acres of forest, and the forest coverage rate has increased significantly from 11% before the establishment of the new area to 34.7%. "300 meters into the park, 1 kilometer into the forest belt, and 3 kilometers into the forest" is gradually becoming a reality. Baiyangdian, the pearl of North China, has undergone the largest-scale systematic ecological management in history. Its water quality has been significantly improved from worse than Class V to Class III standards, and it has entered the ranks of good lakes in the country.

　　This is a model city for high-quality development and a "people's city" that is suitable for business and livability.

　　Young community workers who joined the new district after graduating from university, elderly people who enjoy delicious meals in community canteens, have transformed from farmers into "new citizens" enjoying social security benefits... In the Rongdong area, the first concentrated built-up area in the new district, residents are working hard Feel the wonderful life.

　　On May 10, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Nanwenying Community in Rongdong District to visit the returnees: "I have always cared about the returnees, and I am very pleased to see that everyone is living a good life. The most important thing is to build Xiongan New Area well. We need to connect people's livelihood and work well, so that people can live stably, live peacefully, and have a bright future."

On May 10, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Li Jinghe, a relocated resident, at his home in Nanwenying Community, Rongdong District, Xiongan New District, Hebei Province.

　　Li Zihan, the daughter of returned resident Li Jinghe, was in her second year of high school at the time. She told the General Secretary that after the establishment of Xiongan New Area, middle school principals and teachers from Beijing came, and now you can enjoy high-quality educational resources at your doorstep. "After graduating from university, I must return to the new district to contribute to my hometown."

　　"Okay!" The General Secretary cast an approving glance, "Your generation is the generation that places our hope on our country's modernization and then its great national rejuvenation. Xiongan will be a model place for the whole of China in the future, a thousand-year city. It takes a long time to achieve success, and the starting point is the highest at the beginning. Young people who have passion and nostalgia, return from their studies and benefit their country, will definitely do great things!"

　　This is the "Xiong'an scene" of Chinese modernization. The concept of making people's lives more comfortable is integrated into the blood of urban planning and construction and is reflected in every detail.

　　“We are not building a beautiful new city, but we are building a new city so that people can live a better life.”

　　"Solve the vital interests of the cadres and the masses in Xiongan New District, so that the people can feel a real sense of gain and happiness from the construction and development of the new district."

　　The words are sincere and the feelings remain unchanged. Just as the General Secretary said at the beginning of the construction of Xiongan New Area: "This is also the historical legacy that our generation of Chinese Communists will leave to future generations."

　　Living up to the General Secretary’s instructions, the land of Yanzhao did not wait, did not delay, worked hard and quickly, and a new city grew jointly and changed with each passing day.

　　The city of the future sees the future, and the millennium plan will live up to the millennium.

　　"Our understanding of time is not measured in terms of ten years or hundreds of years, but in terms of hundreds or thousands of years."

　　In Xiongan, we can better understand the profound meaning of the general secretary’s words.

　　Producer | Geng Zhimin

　　Producer丨Xinglai

　　Editor-in-Chief丨Ning Lili

　　Written by Yang Caiyun

　　Vision丨Jiang Yuhang