To build a soil environmental quality monitoring network and collect the systematic soil geochemical data of heavy metals before and after the construction of Xiong'an New District(XND), long-term variations in soil heavy metal levels during the XND construction were monitored based on the land quality geochemical survey monitoring data and the geochemical distribution of heavy metals. Parameters such as sampling density, sampling quantity, and sampling period were estimated to construct the geochemical monitoring network, which provides a reference for the future long-term monitoring of soil heavy metal geochemistry in XND. The results indicate that variations in the amount of heavy metals As, Cd, Cu, Hg, and Pb are greater than 36%, while the nugget coefficients of Cd, Cu, and Pb are greater than 75% because of the superposition of manmade sources on the high natural background levels. At the 95% and 90% confidence levels, while the allowable error Δ of the sample mean value is 5%, 10%, and 15% and heavy metals as As, Cd, Cu, Hg,Ni, Pb and Zn is monitored in soil environmental quality monitoring network, the proper numbers in the study area are 1077, 270, 120 and 767, 192, 86, respectively. The minimum detectable change(MDC)of each heavy metal species is between 0.0025 and 2.54 mg ·kg-1. Soil heavy metal monitoring requires different revisit intervals under different annual change rates, but in the study area, revisit intervals of soil monitoring are approximately two years under the current conditions of constant annual change rates.
Keywords: Xiong'an New District; heavy metal; minimum detectable change; reasonable sampling number; soil monitoring.