It would be located in the northwest region of Xinjiang. The extreme climate requires the creation of a large underground water reserve network.

China wants to promote its new Silk Road to Europe to win in the economic struggle it maintains with the West. In addition, the Asian giant also wants to minimize economic inequalities, reduce its pollution, alleviate overpopulation in Beijing and strengthen surveillance over the Uyghurs. To meet all these objectives, Xi Jinping's government has in mind to emulate the Macedonian king and build a city in Xinjiang, a desert region twice the size of France.

A 'Beijing II' to redistribute tasks

This new capital would redistribute Chinese economic activity, highly concentrated in the east of the country, where important cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong are located. Xi Jinping's government would be able to reinforce its Belt and Road Initiative, since the only direct commercial connection via land with Europe passes through Xinjiang, crossing Urumqi.

Both the absence and excess of water are the main obstacle to this project. Extreme weather conditions, ranging from extreme droughts to enormous floods, have pushed Beijing to drill into the earth with more than 20 tunnel boring machines to create a network of underground reserves 1,000 km long.

AI and autonomous cars for an underground megaconstruction.To improve the safety of the construction workers and guarantee the absence of problems that lengthen the work, the authorities have chosen to use an AI that regulates traffic automatically and immediately.

The network of reservoirs and pipelines will serve to store water arising from melting snow and seasonal flooding, distributing it more equitably throughout the Xinjiang desert region. Once completed, this project could meet the needs of 200 million people.

Xinjiang is part of the 'Data East and Computing West' technology plan, along with Qinghai Gansu, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. The objective of this project is to increase the energy capacity of current solar and wind installations to reduce the use of fossil fuels and power eight new computing centers with which to accelerate the development of technologies such as AI.

Thus, the equitable distribution of water in Xinjiang, the strengthening of the connection with Europe of the New Silk Road, the reduction of economic inequalities and the alleviation of overpopulation in Beijing are the arguments that drive the creation of a new capital china in the northwestern desert region of china.