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Erik Stattin

Xiong'an

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For every building in the physical Xiong’an, a digital twin is simultaneously created. Traffic patterns, water and electricity consumption, phone and internet usage, as well as citizens’ daily movements, are collected and monitored. Cameras equipped with facial recognition technology are constantly scanning passersby to help provide services. Every financial transaction made, every unit of electricity and litre of water consumed, every traffic infringement or illegal bit of parking, every blown-down tree, every overflowing rubbish bin or broken streetlamp is recorded and compiled in a central data facility: Xiong’an New Area’s Computing Centre.Long Ling, "In the new Beijing", London Review of Books, 3 april 2025