Xiong'an New Area. As previously discussed in this post, Xiong’an New Area (Xiong’an), a pilot city established in 2017 about 100 kilometres west of Beijing, aims to be a model for future digital cities, built with IPv6-only infrastructure from the start. To achieve this, the local government is prioritizing IPv6 in its top-level planning, designing for the deployment of 198,000 sensors per square kilometre, and supporting over 1 million Internet of Things (IoT) devices per square kilometre. Thi...