Xiongan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: c. 2017, from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 雄安 (Xióng'ān), without syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)).
Senses: examples: text: Applying the empirical formulas of seismic intensity presented by some scholars, we evaluate the seismic intensity in the Xiongan New Area when the characteristic earthquake and the preshocks in the Tangshan seismic zone and the preshocks in the Yuncheng seismic zone occur in the future, respectively. The present result suggests that the seismic fortification intensity in the Xiongan New Area in the next 50 years should be adjusted from original 7 degree to 8 degree.
ref: 2017, Yang Bai-Cun et al., “Seismic hazard assessment in the Xiongan New Area”, in Chinese Journal of Geophysics, volume 60, number 12, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: The fund will also push forward construction of the Xiongan New Area, Xinhua said. Xiongan is a new development in Hebei province that was announced on April 1 and is a key project of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
ref: 2017 September 30, “China sets up $1.5 bln fund to promote Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2022:
text: The airport is also intended as a gift for the relatively underdeveloped region south of the capital where it is located (67km from Capital airport in the northeast). It is roughly equidistant between the centre of Beijing and a new city, Xiongan, that is being built in Hebei province, south of Daxing, to relieve population pressure on the capital (Xiongan is a project cherished by China’s leader, Xi Jinping, as is the airport).
ref: 2019 April 6, “The sky's the limit”, in The Economist, volume 431, number 9137, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:
text: THE KEY TEST MAY COME in Xiongan, a 680-square-mile stretch of swampy land, including a heavily polluted lake, about 65 miles southwest of Beijing. In April 2017 President Xi Jinping announced, again to general surprise, that he wanted to build a new city there.[...]Xi has declared Xiongan a project for the millennium. A video in the visitors center shows a low-rise, small-block, and extremely green city.
ref: 2019 April, Robert Kunzig, “Rethinking Cities”, in National Geographic, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90:
text: A warming and drying trend was seen in Xiongan New Area during 1961–2018, as evidenced by the increase in the number of high-temperature days and the maximum rainfall intensity per hour, a decrease in surface water resources and groundwater levels, a reduction in wind speeds, and weakening of the self-purification capacity of the atmosphere. It is estimated that the areas at high risk of floods and heats will increase by 15.7 and 15.6% in around 2035 relative to 1986–2005, respectively. Although the runoff in the Daqing River Basin will increase, the construction of Xiongan New Area means that the imbalance between the supply and demand of water resources will remain. Climate change adaptation measures should therefore be improved in the planning and construction of Xiongan New Area.
ref: 2020 June 3, Yujie Wang et al., “Climate-related risks in the construction of Xiongan New Area, China”, in Theoretical and Applied Climatology, volume 141, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Xiongan, about a two-hour drive from central Beijing, is a site in Hebei province that was hand picked by Chinese President Xi Jinping to be developed into the nation’s new “dream city”.
ref: 2021 April 6, “Construction in full swing to build China’s ‘city of the future’, Xiongan”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of Xiong'an.