Intensive efforts are being made to draft an integration development plan for Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province.

The Beijing urban circle has a combined area of 216,000 square km. and a combined GDP of over 6 trillion yuan (about 1 trillion U.S. dollars) and a total population of 100 million. The integration program explores new urbanization models for Beijing as people flood into the capital seeking better education, medical care and jobs. There are also too many cities and townships in the region which is choked by uneven development, a water shortage, and serious air pollution.