Xiong’an New Area, a flagship development launched in 2017 to absorb non-capital functions from Beijing and knit together the Beijing‑Tianjin‑Hebei region, has entered a new phase of build‑out and operations, according to recent dispatches from Chinese state media. State media place the developed area at roughly 215 square kilometers, around 83 square miles, with more than 5,300 buildings now shaping the skyline and about 1.41 million residents—as officials tout the city moving from blueprint