Five Key Initiatives

These are five development initiatives launched by Beijing to better fulfill its strategic role as the national capital. They include building Beijing into an international center of technological innovation; developing the “two zones”, namely the National Integrated Demonstration Zone for Greater Openness in the Services Sector and the China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone; turning Beijing into a global model city for the digital economy; stimulating and creating new demand through supply-side structural reform; and promoting the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region through relocation of functions non-essential to Beijing’s role as the capital. These initiatives, pursued in a coordinated way, will enable Beijing to better serve and integrate into the country’s new pattern of development.