-- Construction of Xiong'an New Area has been forging ahead at full throttle over the past four years, with over 160,000 people currently engaged in implementing more than 120 major projects such as infrastructure construction and ecological restoration.

-- Xiong'an has been designed to become an intelligent city featuring high-tech and innovation as well as a magnet for global talent.

-- "Green" is another buzzword in Xiong'an's grand development plan. It aspires to become a green city with harmonious human-environment interaction.

by Xinhua writers Liu Xinyu, Gao Bo and Cao Guochang

SHIJIAZHUANG, April 1  -- Wang Shasha begins her day in the wee hours of the morning, as she climbs up a 50-meter-tall tower crane and starts operating the big machine to move building materials at a construction site in Xiong'an New Area, north China's Hebei Province.