PHOTOS: Better Integration, Better Life

Passengers board a bus linking Beijing to Dachang, Hebei Province, on February 13
Customers flock to an underground market in downtown Beijing to shop for discounted clothes on December 29, 2015. Beijing is relocating a number of large-scale markets from its downtown area amid efforts to remove non-essential functions
An aerial view of the Lingang Ecological Wetland Park in Tianjin on October 21, 2016
A solar power plant in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, on July 7, 2016
A rescue helicopter arrives at a drill site in Beijing's Tongzhou District on December 15, 2016. A Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated response system has been launched for possible rescue missions in extreme weather

Photos by Xinhua, edited by Zhou Xiaoyan

China launched the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integrated development program in February 2014. Over the past three years, the program has greatly improved people's lives, helped upgrade local industries and protected the three regions' environment.