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Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Beijing’s new administrative center in outer district Tongzhou Friday, according to state news agency Xinhua.
This is Xi’s third stop on his trip to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, or Jing-Jin-Ji area, this week.
China had planned for years to shift its administrative center out to Tongzhou — around 20 kilometers east of downtown Beijing — in an effort to rein traffic congestion and air pollution in the capital’s denser inner districts.
The new location opened last Friday, and at least 35 city-level departments have already completed the relocation, CCTV said.
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