Zero emission is already an important phrase in the current international environmental protection and sustainable development. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced on the 10th that a new future city named “Line” will be built in the northwestern part of Saudi Arabia. "Automotive", "Zero Emission" City-in-City.

As the chairman of the board of directors of New Future City, Crown Prince Mohammed released a video introduction on the website. The "line" will be a long strip of city, 170 kilometers long and can accommodate 1 million residents.

New Future City issued a statement saying, "Walkability and livability are the genes of the line". There are no private cars in the city, and it only takes up to 5 minutes to walk for daily affairs or public transportation. You can reach anywhere in the city within 20 minutes by taking the super high-speed public transportation system.

The "line" will retain 95% of its natural features, and all the energy required for urban development will be clean energy such as solar and wind energy. The city will extensively adopt artificial intelligence and robotics, and build "invisible and seamless" physical and digital infrastructure.

"Line" plans to start construction in the first quarter of 2021.

Saudi Arabia is one of the world's major oil exporters. In order to get rid of its dependence on oil revenue, Saudi Arabia issued the "Saudi 2030 Vision" in 2016, spending about 500 billion US dollars to build a new future city as part of the vision, and develop energy and water, biotechnology, food, advanced manufacturing and entertainment industries in the city. And other nine major industries.

The planned new city will have a total area of 26,500 square kilometers in the future, and it is expected that the city will be completed in 2025. Editor/Xu Shengpeng