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The State Council or China's cabinet has released a guideline on promoting the high-quality development of Beijing's sub-center and easing the non-capital functions of Beijing, as well as aiming to support Beijing's sub-center in developing its digital economy. 

The guideline will help in promoting the new generation of information technology and intelligent manufacturing, as well as a number of major scientific and technological projects. The guideline will also accelerate the layout of new digital infrastructure around 5G, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data, and Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).

Oriented toward innovative and green progress, the sub-center of Beijing shall see more functions and population transferred into its administrative area to relieve the city's non-capital duties, the guideline noted.

Integrated and high-quality development of Beijing's sub-center in Tongzhou District and neighboring suburban counties and cities in Hebei Province will also be promoted, said the document.

The guideline urged the Beijing municipality to implement its primary responsibility in promoting the high-quality development of the sub-center and urged it to pursue reform, opening-up, and innovative-development.