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On April 1, 2017 \u2013 April Fool\u2019s Day \u2013 the government made a surprise announcement that a satellite city bigger than New York would be built from scratch on the outskirts of Beijing. Official news site <\/span>Xinhua described Xiong\u2019an New District<\/a> as the \u201cplan of the millennium\u201d and \u201ca major national event\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking to newspaper <\/a><\/span>Southern Weekly<\/a> on April 2, Yang Kaizhong, a professor at Peking University and director of the university\u2019s Jing-Jin-Ji<\/a> Coordinated Development Joint Innovation Centre, declared Xiong\u2019an \u201can auxiliary capital\u201d, by which he meant a second city to accommodate the overspill of Beijing\u2019s rising population.<\/p>\n

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Prior to this announcement, in July 2015, Beijing decided to move its municipal administration to Tongzhou on the border with neighbouring Hebei province in another move to reduce the population pressure on the capital.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are hopes that by developing the auxiliary administrative centres<\/a> of Tongzhou and Xiong\u2019an, the Beijing authorities will stem the city\u2019s much-criticised, outward sprawl.<\/p>\n

While much of the country\u2019s resources are redirected to the capital, the city is struggling to support a population of 21 million. Beijing is saturated; its streets congested, its air polluted, and its dwindling water supply necessitating large transfers pumped up from the south.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the city\u2019s predicament comes as no surprise. The current situation was predicted back in 1950 by architect Liang Sicheng and urban planning expert Chen Zhanxiang.<\/p>\n

The Liang-Chen Proposal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Liang Sicheng was the founder of Tsinghua University\u2019s School of Architecture. According to Xinhua<\/em><\/a>, Liang became known for his efforts to save historical buildings in Kyoto and Nara during the Second World War. He would mark their positions on maps provided to the Allied forces so that bombers could avoid those locations.<\/p>\n

Later, when the Chinese Communists and the Kuomintang were fighting in Beijing (then Beiping) he advised Zhou Enlai, the first Premier of the People\u2019s Republic of China, which districts to avoid shelling. Liang Congjie, his son, would go on to found <\/span>Friends of Nature<\/a>, China\u2019s first environmental group.<\/p>\n

Chen Zhanxiang was a doctoral student at University College London but he cut short his studies to return to China. Chen\u2019s supervisor, Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie, created the post-war reconstruction plan for London, known as <\/span>The Greater London Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1950, Liang and Chen submitted their proposal to redraw the map of Beijing\u2019s government district. Chen\u2019s daughter, Chen Yuqing, explains<\/span> in a memoir<\/a> that the proposal consisted of two main elements. The old city centre would be retained as a historic, cultural zone, with the government\u2019s administrative centre rebuilt to the west of the city. Several self-contained centres would be built to limit traffic congestion between districts.<\/p>\n

But the Liang-Chen Proposal was met with controversy. Journalist Wang Jun wrote in <\/span>City Memories<\/a> (2003), his best-selling book on the history of Beijing, that, \u201cthe ideology of the time regarded the old city as a remnant of feudal society.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so the new administrative centre was built on top of the old city. The old walls and archways were demolished to make way for new government buildings and roads.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEach city gate knocked down is like [losing] a chunk of flesh,\u201d remarked Liang Sicheng at the time.<\/p>\n

He warned Beijing\u2019s city bosses that in 50 years his predictions about the impracticality of their design would come to pass.<\/p>\n

Sixty-seven years later, when the Xiong\u2019an New District was announced, many Chinese netizens took to social media to post: \u201cWe owe Liang Sicheng an apology.\u201d<\/p>\n

A salute to Moscow<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rather than protect Beijing\u2019s historical centre, city planners adopted a Soviet model of urban design. According to City Memories, the prevailing socialist view was that capitals required an industrial heart and that industry must to be expanded for the working class to become the most populous sector of society.<\/p>\n

Taking a lead from the Soviet Union, then a more established socialist nation than China, was common practice. In November 1953, Beijing issued a plan to expand the city: \u201cOur capital should become the political, economic and cultural centre of the nation, and in particular a powerful centre for industry, science and technology.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Xu Pingfang, an archaeologist and former head of the Chinese Academy of Social Science\u2019s Institute of Archaeology, said in a television interview<\/a> that Chairman Mao had wanted to see a stack of factory chimneys when he watched the parades from atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace.<\/p>\n

And so Beijing set out to become another Moscow, following a Soviet model of industrial development.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zhao Hong, head of the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Economics, explains that by the 1980s, \u201cBeijing ranked second in China for percentage of GDP accounted for by heavy industry.\u201d China classifies industry into 130 different sectors, and Beijing was home to 120 of them. At one point the city had 14,000 factory chimneys, a rare sight in any national capital.<\/p>\n

The turning point<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the turn of the millennium, Beijing started to deindustrialise. According to the New York Times<\/a><\/em>, heavy industry began relocating outside the capital while the development of a less-polluting service sector was encouraged.<\/p>\n

The run-up to the Beijing Olympics in 2008 marked a turning point when 200 chemical, coking and steel firms were relocated beyond the capital\u2019s borders. In 2011, steel giant Shougang moved a major plant 225 kilometres southeast.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the legacy of heavy industry remains, with air pollution one of the city\u2019s biggest challenges. In March 2017, the city shut its last coal-fired power plant<\/a>, and Beijing now imports 70% of its power. By 2018, coal is expected to account for less than 10% of its energy mix.<\/p>\n

Transportation is also a challenge. Beijing\u2019s road network has expanded in a piecemeal fashion following a pattern of concentric circles, centred on Tiananmen Square. This has contributed to urban sprawl. The 6<\/span>th Ring Road, completed in 2009, is 187 kilometres long.<\/p>\n

Traffic congestion has forced Beijing to restrict the number of cars by implementing a lottery system for new car purchases. Each year, less than <\/span>0.2%<\/a> of applicants are successful. The city now has 18 subway lines, with 13 more under construction. And yet this is still inadequate to relieve the transportation pressures on a city that stretches more than 100 kilometres wide.<\/p>\n

The \u201cauxiliary centres\u201d proposed (in Tongzhou in 2015 and Xiong\u2019an in 2017) are an echo of the Liang-Chen Proposal. If Beijing had adopted the proposal in the 1950s it is possible that the cross-district congestion that plagues Beijing today might have been avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a Xinhua<\/em> report<\/a>, the first formal discussion at a central Party level to create a new district at Xiong\u2019an took place on May 27, 2016. At that meeting of the Central Politburo, Xi Jinping emphasised that this would be a \u201chistoric change\u201d for Beijing.<\/p>\n

It is hard to imagine what Beijing will look like when the Tongzhou and Xiong\u2019an districts have been developed. Pan Jiahua, an urban planning expert and head of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, <\/span>says<\/a> that Xiong\u2019an could mean an end to Beijing\u2019s outward sprawl. It appears, then, that the Liang-Chen Proposal may have been the right approach after all, only delivered 67 years too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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