Hebei province plans to go all out to advance major national strategies over the next five years, with a focus on developing the Xiong'an New Area and deepening coordinated Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei development, authorities said at a news conference on Monday in Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital.

Outlining priorities for the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30), Governor Wang Zhengpu said the province will marshal resources to transform Xiong'an into an innovation hub and a model of high-quality development in the new era.

A key task will be to position Xiong'an as a concentrated host zone for Beijing's non-capital functions. "We will improve planning and services for relocated entities, steadily advance the first and second batches of projects, and roll out a third batch to ensure orderly and continuous progress," Wang said.

Hebei will also refine relocation policies and strengthen integration with Beijing to ensure that employees moving to Xiong'an enjoy living conditions and public services on par with those in the capital.

"The goal is to turn 'a person coming alone' into 'a whole family coming', so that people settle down and make Xiong'an their home," Wang said.

The benefits are already visible. China Datang Group Technology Innovation Co, a China Datang Co subsidiary, moved from Beijing to Xiong'an in late 2023.

It now has 85 employees, nearly 70 of them researchers with master's or doctoral degrees, said Liu Haiyang, deputy director of its hydrogen preparation institute.

Benefiting from housing subsidies and streamlined administrative services, the company has expanded its focus on future energy sectors, including hydrogen and energy storage, Liu added.

Beyond Xiong'an, other parts of Hebei are also taking on relocated functions from Beijing.

The Cangzhou biomedical industrial park, for instance, is located about 150 kilometers southeast of Xiong'an, and hosts 49 enterprises from Beijing and Tianjin, achieving the goal of "Beijing and Tianjin medicine, manufactured in Cangzhou", said Zhao Chenxin, executive vice-governor of Hebei.

He added that Hebei is deepening the "R&D in Beijing and Tianjin, transformation in Hebei" model.

In 2025, the value of technology contracts Hebei signed with the two neighboring municipalities exceeded 120 billion yuan ($17.6 billion), up 16.4 percent year-on-year.

Another area gaining momentum is Hebei's "shared intelligent manufacturing" model, which is boosting county-level industrial clusters.

Zhao Dachun, vice-governor of Hebei, said small and medium-sized enterprises now share equipment, R&D and even market channels, turning past competition into win-win cooperation.

The model has delivered impressive results. In Qinghe county, a shared factory with 4,500 automatic knitting machines can now complete an order of 200 cashmere sweaters on the same day.

Hebei plans to expand the shared manufacturing model across more industries. By 2030, the total revenue of 107 key county-level clusters is expected to reach 5 trillion yuan, with the number of national-level clusters remaining among the highest in the country.

A key focus will be smart upgrading, Zhao said, with artificial intelligence and big data used to build an "industrial brain" to streamline procurement, R&D, production and financing.

Yue Zhijuelin contributed to this story.