Xiong'an New Area officially became a member of the Global Digital Economy City Alliance at the 2026 Global Digital Economy Conference Xiong'an Digital-Intelligence Future Forum held in July. The alliance was launched by Beijing in 2025 together with over 40 international cities, registered in Geneva, Switzerland, focusing on digital manufacturing, robotics, artificial intelligence and other frontier fields, with support from the International Telecommunication Union and the International Trade Centre.
The forum set up a special session in Xiong'an for the first time, gathering over 600 academicians and experts from China, France, Russia, Spain, Tanzania and other countries, as well as representatives from government departments, research institutions, leading enterprises and social organizations.
Xiong'an's entry into the alliance is backed by its accumulated strengths in three areas: central enterprise digital subsidiaries, artificial intelligence, and data elements. In the digital subsidiary sector, over 50 such enterprises have settled in Xiong'an. For example, China Post established China Post Information Technology focusing on smart logistics and digital finance; CNPC's Kunlun Digital Intelligence relocated its new energy and innovation business segments entirely; COSCO Shipping, CITIC Metal and others jointly invested in Wutong Port (Xiong'an) Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd., which connects data channels for over 40 financial institutions via blockchain, IoT and AI. In the chip field, China Mobile IoT's Xinsheng Technology released the world's first RISC-V core super SIM chip, and SDIC Group built the world's first nanoscale micro-vibration laboratory.
In AI, as of June 2026, Xiong'an had attracted 96 AI enterprises, with the AI Industrial Park gathering over 70 within one year of opening, covering embodied intelligence, large model R&D, trusted data spaces and more. A responsible person from Xiong'an's Bureau of Industry, Information Technology and Data disclosed that Xiong'an has set a '511' target: aiming to cultivate 5 enterprises with 10-billion-level revenue, 10 with 5-billion-level, and 100 core backbone enterprises within three years.
On data, the Xiong'an Urban Computing Center has aggregated over 40 billion high-quality data records, the 'Government Cloud' hosts over 100 government systems, and underground infrastructure includes over 500 km of digital roads and 160 km of digital utility tunnels. Xiong'an was also included in the National Data Administration's pilot program for innovative development of urban trusted data spaces.
On the forum day, multiple substantive measures were rolled out. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region jointly launched the 'AI + Manufacturing' collaborative innovation application demonstration zone proposal to advance deep integration of AI and advanced manufacturing. Xiong'an also partnered with four relocated universities—Beijing Jiaotong University, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing Forestry University, and China University of Geosciences (Beijing)—to launch an integrated education, science and technology, and talent initiative in the digital-intelligence field. Additionally, 6 digital-intelligence platforms and 7 self-developed products were debuted, and 9 digital economy innovation development pilot zone carrier platforms were inaugurated, involving key industrial carriers such as the Satellite Industrial Park, training base, and Zhongguancun Science Park.
According to the Hebei Xiong'an New Area Planning Outline and the Guiding Opinions on Comprehensively Promoting the Innovative Development of the Digital Economy in Xiong'an New Area, the digital economy is expected to account for 80% of Xiong'an's GDP by 2035. During the forum, Beijing also delivered a keynote sharing on Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei digital collaboration, and the high-level dialogue featured the theme 'Digital-Intelligence Leading, New City Model'.