In practice, building ecological cities in China has primarily focused on hard measures . Key areas of development include stakeholder engagement and horizontal coordination . Among one of 19 national-level New Areas in China, Xi'xian enjoys special preferential policies in the fields of fiscal autonomy, investment and tax policy, and permission in land utility for industrial development purpose. These policy freedoms allow Xi'Xian to explore adaptation options. This has opened engagement with business through an urban construction investment group sponsored and invested in jointly by Xi'Xian Management Committee  and local enterprises . Second, the municipal government has simplified administrative systems to reduce the project waiting period from evaluation to approval to 50 d. Third, a green financial mechanism creates a leverage effect for national funding, including the first provincial Green Sponge Development Fund  and in Shaanxi, special funding from the Urbanization Development Fund . Furthermore, a public-private partnership model with a whole-lifecycle-management approach has been introduced, raising funding of RMB 1.24 billion with a packaged project including public pipelines and sewage water treatment facilities.
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