drive the development of the broader Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban cluster," said Yin Zhi, executive deputy director of the Institute for China Sustainable Urbanization at Tsinghua University.

BEIJING -- China's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has made remarkable progress in coordinated development across economic, ecological and social sectors, an official told Xinhua Thursday.

The area aims to become a high-level socialist modern city, an important part of the world-class urban agglomeration in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, a new engine of the modern economic system ...

A priority is the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region ... increase basic pensions for retirees, urban and rural residents, and raise government subsidies for healthcare ...