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For the people of Hebei, see Hebei people
Hebei people

The Hebei are a Mandarin language-speaking people of North China. There is a small Hebei community in Malaysia.References...

' (; Postal map spelling: Hopeh) is a northern

North China

Northern China or North China is a geographical region of China. The heartland of North China is the North China Plain.It is defined by the People's Republic of China to include the Municipality of China of Beijing and Tianjin, the Provinces of China of Hebei and Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia....
province of the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
. Its one-character

Chinese character

A Chinese character, also known as a Han character , is a logogram used in writing Chinese language ,'' Japanese language ,'' less frequently Korean language ,'' and formerly Vietnamese language .''...
abbreviation is "" (pinyin

Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: jì), named after Ji Province ( Jì Zhou), a Han Dynasty

Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
province (zhou
Zhou (political division)

The zhou was a History of the political divisions of China of China. First established during the Han Dynasty, zhou continued to exist until the establishment of the Republic of China — a period of over 2000 years....
) that included southern Hebei. The name Hebei means "north of the (Yellow) River".

Zhili , meaning "Directly Ruled (by the Imperial Court)", was the name of Hebei before 1928.

Hebei completely surrounds Beijing

Beijing

Tianjin

is the third largest city of the People's Republic of China in terms of urban population. Administratively it is one of the four municipality that have Political divisions of China status, reporting directly to the central government....
municipalities (which also border each other).

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North China

People's Republic of China

Chinese character

Pinyin

Han Dynasty

Beijing

Tianjin

Liaoning

is a Northeast China political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China. Its one-Chinese character abbreviation is Liao ."Li?o" is an ancient name for this region, which was adopted by the Liao Dynasty which ruled this area between 907 and 1125....
to the northeast, Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia is the Mongols autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China, located in the country's north.Inner Mongolia borders, from east to west, the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu, while to the north it borders Mongolia and Russia....
to the north, Shanxi

Shanxi

Henan

Henan , is a Province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. Its one-Chinese character abbreviation is ? , named after Yuzhou , a Han Dynasty province that included parts of Henan....
to the south, and Shandong

Shandong

For the people of Shandong, see Shandong people is a coastal political divisions of China of eastern People's Republic of China. Its abbreviation is 'Lu', after the state of Lu that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....
to the southeast. Bohai Bay

Bohai Bay

Bohai Bay is one of the three Headlands and bayss forming the Bohai Gulf, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea, in northeastern China. It borders Hebei province and Tianjin Municipality....
of the Yellow Sea

Yellow Sea

The Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between mainland China and the Korean peninsula....
is to the east. A small part of Hebei, an exclave

Exclave

An exclave is strip of land that belongs to a political entity but that is not connected to it by land . The strip of land is surrounded by other political entities....
disjointed from the rest of the province, is wedged between the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin.

A common alternate name for Hebei is Yanzhào , after the state of Yan and state of Zhao that existed here during the Warring States Period

Warring States Period

The Warring States Period , also known as the Era of Warring States, covers the period from 476 BCE to the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty in 221 BCE....
of early Chinese history.

History

Plains in Hebei were the home of Peking man

Peking Man

Peking Man , also called Sinanthropus pekinensis , is an example of Homo erectus. A group of fossil specimens was discovered in 1923-27 during excavations at Zhoukoudian near Beijing , China....
, a group of Homo erectus

Homo Erectus

Homo Erectus is a 2007 comedy film about cavemen that was written and directed by Adam Rifkin, and starring Giuseppe Andrews, Gary Busey, David Carradine, Ron Jeremy, Ali Larter, Hayes MacArthur, Adam Rifkin, and Talia Shire....
that lived in the area around 200,000 to 700,000 years ago. Neolithic

Neolithic

The Neolithic period was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 Before the Christian Era in the Middle East that is traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age....
findings at the prehistoric Beifudi site

Prehistoric Beifudi site

The Prehistoric Beifudi site near Yixian in Hebei Province, China, is the excavation of a recently discovered prehistoric Neolithic village that Chinese archaeologists say is one of the most important sites found so far....
date back to 7000 and 8000 BCE.

During the Spring and Autumn Period

Spring and Autumn Period

The Spring and Autumn Period was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds to the first half of the Eastern Zhou dynasty . Its name comes from the Spring and Autumn Annals, a chronicle of the state of Lu between 722 BC and 481 BC, which tradition associates with Confucius....
(722 BC - 476 BC), Hebei was under the rule of the states of Yan in the north and Jin in the south. Also during this period, a nomadic people known as Dí

Di may refer to:* The diminutive form of the name Diana, Diane and Dianne. Dai is the Welsh diminutive form of the name David.*Diana, Princess of Wales....
invaded the plains of northern China and established Zhongshan in central Hebei. During the Warring States Period

Warring States Period

The Warring States Period , also known as the Era of Warring States, covers the period from 476 BCE to the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty in 221 BCE....
(403 BC - 221 BC), Jin was partitioned, and much of its territory within Hebei went to Zhao.

The Qin Dynasty

Qin Dynasty

The Qin Dynasty was preceded by the feudal Zhou Dynasty and followed by the Han Dynasty in China. The unification of China in 221 BCE under the Qin Shi Huang marked the beginning of Imperial China, a period which lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 CE....
unified China in 221 BC. The Han Dynasty

Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
(206 BC - 220 AD) ruled the area under two provinces (zhou
Zhou (political division)

The zhou was a History of the political divisions of China of China. First established during the Han Dynasty, zhou continued to exist until the establishment of the Republic of China — a period of over 2000 years....
), Youzhou Province in the north and Jizhou Province in the south. At the end of the Han Dynasty

Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
, most of Hebei came under the control of warlord

Warlord

A warlord is a person with power who has military dictatorship over a subnational area due to armed forces loyal to the warlord and not to a central authority....
s Gongsun Zan

Gongsun Zan

Gongsun Zan , styled Bogui . A native of Liaoxi , he was a warlord with fierce reputation during the late Eastern Han Dynasty era of China....
in the north and Yuan Shao

Yuan Shao

Yuan Shao was a powerful warlord during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China. He occupied the northern territories of ancient China during the massive civil war towards the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Three Kingdoms era....
further south; Yuan Shao

Yuan Shao

Cao Cao

C?o Cao was a warlord and the penultimate Chancellor of China of the Eastern Han Dynasty who rose to great power during its final years in ancient China....
(based further south, in modern-day Henan

Henan

Battle of Guandu

The Battle of Guandu was a battle during the End of the Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history that took place at the Yellow River in the spring of 200....
in 200. Hebei then came under the rule of the Kingdom of Wei (one of the Three Kingdoms

Three Kingdoms

The Three Kingdoms period is a period in the history of China, part of an era of disunity called the Six Dynasties following immediately the loss of de facto power of the Han Dynasty emperors....
), established by the descendants of Cao Cao

Cao Cao

C?o Cao was a warlord and the penultimate Chancellor of China of the Eastern Han Dynasty who rose to great power during its final years in ancient China....
.

After the invasions of northern nomadic peoples at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the chaos of the Sixteen Kingdoms

Sixteen Kingdoms

The Sixteen Kingdoms , or less commonly the Sixteen States, were a collection of numerous short-lived sovereign states in China proper and its neighboring areas from 304 to 439 Common Era after the retreat of the Jin Dynasty to South China and before the establishment of the Northern Dynasties....
and the Northern and Southern Dynasties ensued. Hebei, firmly in North China and right at the northern frontier, changed hands many times, being controlled at various points in history by the Later Zhao

Later Zhao

The Later Zhao was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms during the Jin Dynasty in China. It was founded by the Shi family of the Jie ethnicity. The Later Zhao was the second in territories to the Former Qin that once unified Northern China under Fu Jian....
, Former Yan

Former Yan

The Former Yan was a state of Xianbei ethnicity during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms in China.Initially, Murong Huang and his son Murong Jun claimed the Jin Dynasty -created title "Prince of Yan," but subsequently, in 352, after seizing most of the former Later Zhao territory, Murong Juan would declare himself emperor, and after that point,...
, Former Qin

Former Qin

The Former Qin was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms in China. Founded by the Fu family of the Di ethnicity, it completed the unification of North China in 376....
, and Later Yan

Later Yan

The Later Yan was a Murong-Xianbei state, locate in north-east of current China, during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms in China.All rulers of the Later Yan declared themselves "Chinese nobility"....
. The Northern Wei

Northern Wei

The Northern Wei Dynasty , also known as the Tuoba Wei , Later Wei , or Yuan Wei , was "part of an era of political turbulence and intense social and cultural change"....
reunified northern China in 440, but split in half in 534, with Hebei coming under the eastern half (first the Eastern Wei

Eastern Wei

The Eastern Wei Dynasty followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and ruled northern China from 534 to 550.In 534 Gao Huan, the potentate of the eastern half of what was Northern Wei territory following the disintegration of the Northern Wei dynasty installed Yuan Shanjian a descendant of the Northern Wei as ruler of Easter...
; then the Northern Qi

Northern Qi

The Northern Qi Dynasty was one of the Northern dynasties of Chinese history and ruled northern China from 550 to 577. It was the successor state of the Xianbei state of Eastern Wei, as Eastern Wei's paramount general Gao Huan was succeeded by his sons Gao Cheng and Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi, who took the throne from Emperor Xiaojing o...
), which had its capital at Ye, near modern Linzhang, Hebei. The Sui Dynasty

Sui Dynasty

The Sui Dynasty followed the Southern and Northern Dynasties and preceded the Tang Dynasty in China. It ended nearly four centuries of division between rival regimes....
again unified China in 589.

During the Tang Dynasty

Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was an Dynasties in Chinese history preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire....
(618 - 907) the area was formally designated "Hebei" (north of the Yellow River) for the first time. During the earlier part of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was an era of political upheaval in China, beginning in the Tang Dynasty and ending in the Song Dynasty . During this period, five dynasties quickly succeeded one another in the north, and more than 12 independent states were established, mainly in the south....
, Hebei was fragmented among several regimes, though it was eventually unified by Li Cunxu

Li Cunxu

Li Cunxu was King of Jin, China and later became Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang .Li Cunxu was successful in overthrowing the Later Liang Dynasty in 923 and proclaimed himself emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, which he referred to as the ?Restored Tang.? As a part of ?restoring the Tang Dynasty,? the capital was moved back to the old Ta...
, who established the Later Tang Dynasty

Later Tang Dynasty

The Later Tang Dynasty was a short-lived dynasty that lasted from 923 to 936 one of the five dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period....
(923 - 936). The next dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty

Later Jin Dynasty (Five Dynasties)

Note that there are four periods of Chinese history using the name "Jin" The Later J?n was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China....
under Shi Jingtang, posthumously known as Emperor Gaozu of Later Jin

Gaozu of Later Jin

Shi Jingtang ??? was the founder of the Later Jin Dynasty , the third of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period that controlled much of northern China from 907 to 960....
, ceded much of modern-day northern Hebei to the Khitan

Khitan people

The Khitan people , or Khitai, were a nomadic people, originally located at Mongolia and modern Manchuria from the 4th century. They dominated a vast area in northern China by the 10th century under the Liao Dynasty, but have left few relics that have survived until today....
Liao Dynasty

Liao Dynasty

The Liao Dynasty , 907-1125, also known as the Khitan Empire , was an empire in East Asia that ruled over the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and parts of northern China proper....
in the north; this territory, called The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, became a major weakness in China

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
's defense against the Khitans for the next century, since it lay within the Great Wall.

During the Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1127), the sixteen ceded prefectures continued to be an area of hot contention between Song China and the Liao Dynasty

Liao Dynasty

The Liao Dynasty , 907-1125, also known as the Khitan Empire , was an empire in East Asia that ruled over the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and parts of northern China proper....
. The Southern Song Dynasty that came after abandoned all of North China

North China

Jurchen

Jurchen may refer to:* Jurchen people, Tungusic people who inhabited the region of Manchuria until the 17th century* Jurchen script, writing system of Jurchen people...
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) in 1127.

The Mongol Yuan Dynasty

Yuan Dynasty

The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was both the continuation of the Mongol Empire and the Mongol founded historical state in Mongolia and China, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368....
divided China into provinces but did not establish Hebei as a province. The Ming Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty , or Empire of the Great Ming , was the ruling Dynasties in Chinese history of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
ruled Hebei as "Beizhili" (???, pinyin

Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: Beizhílì), meaning "Northern Directly Ruled", because the area contained and was directly ruled by the imperial capital, Beijing

Beijing

is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
; the "Northern" designation was used because there was a southern counterpart covering present-day Jiangsu

Jiangsu

is a Province of China of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name comes from jiang, short for the city of Jiangning , and su, for the city of Suzhou....
and Anhui

Anhui

Anhui is a province of China of the People's Republic of China. Located in eastern China across the basins of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, it borders Jiangsu to the east, Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei to the southwest, Henan to the northwest, and Shandong for a tiny section in the north....
. When the Manchu

Manchu

The Manchu people are a Tungusic peoples who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the seventeenth century, with the help of Ming rebels , they conquered the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until its abolition in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution, which established Republic of China in its place....
Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty , also known as the Manchu Dynasty, followed the Ming Dynasty in History of China, and was the last ruling Chinese Dynasties of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 ....
came to power in 1644, they abolished the southern counterpart, and Hebei became known as "Zhili", or simply "Directly Ruled". During the Qing Dynasty, the northern borders of Zhili extended deep into what is now Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia

Qing Dynasty

Republic of China

The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
. Within a few years, China descended into civil war, with regional warlords vying for power. Since Zhili was so close to Peking (Beijing

Beijing

is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
), the capital, it was the site of frequent wars, including the Zhiwan War, the First Zhifeng War and the Second Zhifeng War. With the success of the Northern Expedition, a successful campaign by the Kuomintang

Kuomintang

The Kuomintang of China , also often translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party, is the founding and the ruling party of the Republic of China ....
to end the rule of the warlords, the capital was moved from Peking (Beijing

Beijing

Nanjing

is the capital city of China's Jiangsu province of China, and a city with a prominent place in Chinese history and Chinese culture. Nanjing served as the capital of China during several historical periods and is listed as one of the Historical capitals of China....
). As a result, the name of Zhili was changed to Hebei to reflect that fact that it had a standard provincial administration, and that the capital had been relocated elsewhere.

The founding of the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

Chengde

Rehe

Rehe , also known as Jehol, is a defunct China provinces of China ....
Province (historically part of Manchuria

Manchuria

Manchuria is a historical name given to a vast geographic region in northeast Asia. Depending on the definition of its extent, Manchuria either falls entirely within People's Republic of China, or is divided between China and Russia....
), and the region around Zhangjiakou

Zhangjiakou

Zhangjiakou is a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province of North China. It has a population of 4.3 million, and covers 36,947 square kilometers....
, previously part of Chahar

Chahar (province)

Chahar , also known as Chaha'er, Chakhar, or Qahar, was a provinces of China of China in existence from 1912 to 1936, mostly covering the territory of what is now Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region....
Province (historically part of Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia

Baoding

Baoding is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, China....
to the upstart city of Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang is a prefecture-level city and the Capital of Hebei Province of China, China. It is about 320 km south of Beijing.Shijiazhuang is a newly industrialized city....
, and, for a short period, to Tianjin

Tianjin

Tangshan

Tangshan is a mainly industrial prefecture-level city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It became known after the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, at least 8.2 on the Richter magnitude scale which flattened the city....
was struck by a powerful earthquake

Earthquake

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph....
, the Tangshan earthquake, the deadliest of the 20th century with over 240,000 killed. A series of smaller earthquakes struck the city in the following decade.

In 2005, Chinese archaeologists unearthed what is being called the Chinese equivalent of Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
's Pompeii

Pompeii

Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Ancient Rome town-city near modern Naples in the Italy region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei....
. The find in question, located near Liumengchun Village in Cang County in east-central Hebei, is a buried settlement destroyed nearly 700 years ago by a major earthquake. Another possible explanation may be the four successive floods which hit the area around the time when the settlement met its sudden end. The settlement appears to have been a booming commercial center during the Song Dynasty

Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty was a ruling Chinese dynasty in China between 960–1279 AD; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty....
.

Geography

Most of central and southern Hebei lies within the North China Plain

North China Plain

The North China Plain is based on the deposits of the Yellow River and is the largest alluvial plain of eastern Asia. The plain is bordered on the north by the Yanshan Mountains and on the west by the Taihang Mountains....
. The western part of Hebei rises into the Taihang Mountains

Taihang Mountains

The Taihang Mountains are a Chinese mountain range running down the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau in Henan, Shanxi and Hebei provinces. The range extends over 400 km from north to south and has an average elevation of 1,500 to 2,000 meters....
(Taihang Shan), while the Yan Mountains

Yan Mountains

The Yanshan or Yan Mountains are a major mountain range north of the North China Plain, in northern Hebei Province.The range rises between the Chaobai River on the west and the famous Shanhai Pass on the east....
(Yan Shan) run through northern Hebei, beyond which lie the grasslands of Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia

Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China or is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the History of China from Xiongnu attacks during the rule of Dynasties in Chinese history....
cuts through northern Hebei from east to west as well, briefly entering the border of Beijing Municipality, and terminates at the seacoast of Shanhaiguan in northeastern Hebei. The highest peak is Mount Xiaowutai in northwestern Hebei, with an altitude of 2882 m.

Hebei borders Bohai Sea

Bohai Sea

Bo Hai , also known as Bohai Sea or Bohai Gulf, is the innermost Headlands and bays of the Yellow Sea on the coast of northeastern China....
on the east. The Hai He watershed

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean....
covers most of the province's central and southern parts, and the Luan He watershed covers the northeast. Not counting the numerous reservoirs to be found in Hebei's hills and mountains, the largest lake in Hebei is Baiyangdian, located mostly in Anxin County

Anxin County

Anxin County is a county in Hebei province, China. It is under the juridiction of Baoding prefecture-level city....
.

Hebei has a continental

Continental climate

Continental climate is a climate that is characterized by winter temperatures cold enough to support a fixed period of snow cover each year, and relatively moderate precipitation occurring mostly in summer, although east coast areas may show an even distribution of precipitation....
monsoon

Monsoon

A monsoon is a seasonal prevailing wind that lasts for several months. The term was first used in English in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and neighboring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the region....
climate, with temperatures of -16 to -3 °C in January and 20 - 27 °C in July, and with annual precipitation

Precipitation (meteorology)

File:MeanMonthlyP.gifIn meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of Atmosphere water vapor that is deposited on the earth's surface....
of 400 to 800 mm, occurring mostly in summer.

Major cities:

Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang is a prefecture-level city and the Capital of Hebei Province of China, China. It is about 320 km south of Beijing.Shijiazhuang is a newly industrialized city....
Baoding
Baoding

Baoding is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, China....
Tangshan
Tangshan

Tangshan is a mainly industrial prefecture-level city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It became known after the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, at least 8.2 on the Richter magnitude scale which flattened the city....
Qinhuangdao
Qinhuangdao

Qinhuangdao is a city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It is about 300 km east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea....
Handan
Handan

Handan is a prefecture-level city located in the southwestern part of Hebei Province of China....
Zhangjiakou
Zhangjiakou

Zhangjiakou is a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province of North China. It has a population of 4.3 million, and covers 36,947 square kilometers....

Administrative divisions

Hebei is made up of 11 prefecture-level divisions, which are all prefecture-level cities:

Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang is a prefecture-level city and the Capital of Hebei Province of China, China. It is about 320 km south of Beijing.Shijiazhuang is a newly industrialized city....
(???? : Shíjiazhuang Shì)
Tangshan
Tangshan

Tangshan is a mainly industrial prefecture-level city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It became known after the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, at least 8.2 on the Richter magnitude scale which flattened the city....
(??? : Tángshan Shì)
Qinhuangdao
Qinhuangdao

Qinhuangdao is a city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It is about 300 km east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea....
(???? : Qínhuángdao Shì)
Handan
Handan

Handan is a prefecture-level city located in the southwestern part of Hebei Province of China....
(??? : Hándan Shì)
Xingtai
Xingtai

Xingtai is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, China. The prefecture-level city of Xingtai, with a total area of 12,486 square kilometers, administers 2 district of China, 2 county-level cities and 15 county of China....
(??? : Xíngtái Shì)
Baoding
Baoding

Baoding is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, China....
(??? : Baodìng Shì)
Zhangjiakou
Zhangjiakou

Zhangjiakou is a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province of North China. It has a population of 4.3 million, and covers 36,947 square kilometers....
(???? : Zhangjiakou Shì)
Chengde
Chengde

Chengde is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China, situated northeast of Beijing. It is best known as the site of the Chengde Mountain Resort, a vast imperial garden formerly used by the emperors of the Qing Dynasty....
(??? : Chéngdé Shì)
Cangzhou
Cangzhou

Cangzhou is a prefecture-level city city in Hebei province of China, People's Republic of China. Cangzhou's urban center has a population of approximately 488,600 , while the prefecture-level administrative region in total has a population of 6.8 million....
(??? : Cangzhou Shì)
Langfang
Langfang

Langfang , Hebei province of China, China, is a prefecture-level city located approximately midway between Beijing and Tianjin with a total population of 3.85 million and an urban area population of 763,700....
(??? : Lángfáng Shì)
Hengshui
Hengshui

Hengshui is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, China. It has an urban population of roughly 445,000 and a population of 4.11 million in its administrative area....
(??? : Héngshui Shì)

These are subdivided into 172 county-level divisions (22 county-level cities, 108 counties, 6 autonomous counties and 36 districts). Those are, in turn, divided into 2207 township-level divisions (1 district public office, 937 towns, 979 townships, 55 ethnic townships, and 235 subdistrict

Subdistrict

Subdistrict is a low level administrative division of a country. In Thailand it may refer to the King Amphoe or to the Tambon. In England and Wales it was part of a Registration district....
s).

For a complete list of the county-level divisions of Hebei, see List of administrative divisions of Hebei
List of administrative divisions of Hebei

The political divisions of China of Hebei, a province of China of the People's Republic of China, consists of prefecture-level divisions subdivided into county-level divisions then subdivided into township-level divisions....
.

Politics

The politics of Hebei is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China

Mainland China

Mainland China, Continental China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China , excluding Hong Kong and Macau, which run on One Country, Two Systems....
.

The Governor of Hebei is the highest ranking official in the People's Government of Hebei. However, in the province's dual party-government governing system, the Governor has less power than the Hebei Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and the ruling party of the People's Republic of China and the world's largest political party....
Provincial Committee Secretary, colloquially termed the "Hebei CPC Party Chief".

Economy

In 2006, Hebei's GDP

Gross domestic product

File:GDP nominal per capita world map IMF 2008.pngThe gross domestic product or gross domestic income is one of the measures of national income and output for a given country's economy....
was 1.16 trillion yuan (US$146.8 billion), an increase of 12.9% over the previous year and ranked 6th in the PRC. GDP per capita reached 16,570 Renminbi

Renminbi

The renminbi is the currency of the People's Republic of China, whose principal unit is the Chinese yuan , subdivided into 10 jiao , each of 10 fen ....
. Disposable income

Disposable income

Disposable income is gross income minus income tax on that income.Discretionary income is income after subtracting taxes and normal expenses to maintain a certain standard of living....
per capita in urban areas was 7951 RMB, while rural pure income per capita was 3171 RMB. The primary

Primary sector of industry

The primary sector of the economy involves changing natural resources into primary products. Most products from this sector are considered raw materials for other industries....
, secondary

Secondary sector of industry

The secondary sector of the economy is one of the three economic sectors, the others being the tertiary sector and the primary sector . Sometimes an additional sector, the "quaternary sector", is defined for the sharing of information ....
, and tertiary

Tertiary sector of industry

The tertiary sector of economy is one of the three economic sectors, the others being the secondary sector and the primary sector . Sometimes an additional sector, the "quaternary sector", is defined for the sharing of information ....
sectors of industry contributed 137.04 billion, 470.34 billion, and 276.32 billion RMB respectively. The registered unemployment rate was 4%.

Hebei's main agricultural products are cereal

Cereal

Cereals, or cereal grains, are mostly Poaceae cultivated for their edible brans or fruit seeds . Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities and provide more energy worldwide than any other type of crop; they are therefore staple foods....
crops including wheat

Wheat

Wheat , is a worldwide cultivated Poaceae from the Levant region of the Middle East. Globally, after maize, wheat is the second most-produced food among the cereal just above rice....
, maize

Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
, millet

Millet

The millets are a group of small-seeded species of cereal Crop or grains, widely grown around the world for food and fodder. They do not form a scientific classification group, but rather a functional or agronomic one....
, and sorghum

Sorghum

Sorghum is a genus of numerous species of Poaceae, some of which are raised for grain and many of which are used as fodder plants either cultivated or as part of pasture....
. Cash crop

Cash crop

In agriculture, a cash crop is a crop which is grown for money.The term is used to differentiate from Subsistence agriculture, which are those fed to the producer's own livestock or grown as food for the producer's family....
s like cotton

Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
, peanut

Peanut

The peanut, or groundnut , is a species in the legume Fabaceae native to South America, Mexico and Central America. It is an annual plant herbaceous plant growing to 30 to 50 cm tall....
, soya bean and sesame

Sesame

Sesame is a flowering plant in the genus Sesamum. Numerous wild relatives occur in Africa and a smaller number in India. It is widely naturalization in tropical regions around the world and is cultivated for its edible seeds, which grow in pods....
are also produced.

Kailuan, with a history of over 100 years, is one of China's first modern coal

Coal

Coal is a readily combustion black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. The harder forms, such as anthracite, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure....
mines, and remains a major mine with an annual production of over 20 million metric tonnes. Much of the North China Oilfield is found in Hebei, and there are also major iron mines at Handan

Handan

Handan is a prefecture-level city located in the southwestern part of Hebei Province of China....
and Qian'an.

Hebei's industries include textiles, coal

Coal

Steel

Steel is an alloy consisting mostly of iron, with a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.14% by weight , depending on grade. Carbon is the most cost-effective alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten....
, iron

Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
, engineering, chemical production, petroleum, power, ceramic

Ceramic

File:Bridge from dental porcelain.jpgFile:Qing vase p1070256.jpgA ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetal solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling....
s and food.

Economic and Technological Development Zones
Economic and Technological Development Zones

The China National Economic and Technological Development Zones are the special areas of the People's Republic of China where foreign direct investment is encouraged....

Baoding
Baoding

Baoding is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, China....
Hi-Tech Industry Development Zone
Qinhuangdao
Qinhuangdao

Qinhuangdao is a city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It is about 300 km east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea....
Economic & Technological Development Zone
Qinhuangdao Export Processing Zone
Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang is a prefecture-level city and the Capital of Hebei Province of China, China. It is about 320 km south of Beijing.Shijiazhuang is a newly industrialized city....
Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone

Demographics

The population is mostly Han Chinese

Han Chinese

Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the Earth.Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98 percent of the population of the Republic of China , 75 percent of the population of Singapore, and about 19 percent...
with minorities of Mongol, Manchu

Manchu

Hui people

The Hui people are a Ethnic groups in China, typically distinguished by their practice of Islam. Hui is the abbreviation of the full name Huihui "??"....
Chinese.

Ethnic groups in Hebei, 2000 census
Nationality	Population	Percentage
Han Chinese Han Chinese Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the Earth.Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98 percent of the population of the Republic of China , 75 percent of the population of Singapore, and about 19 percent...	63,781,603	95.65%
Manchu Manchu The Manchu people are a Tungusic peoples who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the seventeenth century, with the help of Ming rebels , they conquered the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until its abolition in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution, which established Republic of China in its place....	2,118,711	3.18%
Hui Hui people The Hui people are a Ethnic groups in China, typically distinguished by their practice of Islam. Hui is the abbreviation of the full name Huihui "??"....	542,639	0.78%
Mongol	169,887	0.26%
Zhuang Zhuang The Zhuang are an ethnic group of people who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. They form one of the Chinese nationalities officially recognized by the People's Republic of China....	20,832	0.031%

Excludes members of the People's Liberation Army

People's Liberation Army

The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of all land, sea, and air forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 ? celebrated annually as "PLA Day" ? as the military arm of the Communist Party of China....
in active service.
Source: Department of Population, Social, Science and Technology Statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics of China (???????????????) and Department of Economic Development of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission of China (??????????????), eds. Tabulation on Nationalities of 2000 Population Census of China («2000?????????????»). 2 vols. Beijing: Nationalities Publishing House, 2003. (ISBN 7-105-05425-5)

In 2004, the birth rate

Birth rate

Crude birth rate is the natality or childbirths per 1,000 people per year.It can be represented by number of childbirths in that year, and p is the current population....
was 11.98 births/1000 population, while the death rate was 6.19 births/1000 population. The sex ratio

Human sex ratio

In anthropology and demography, the human sex ratio is the sex ratio for Homo sapiens . Like most sexual species, the sex ratio is approximately 1:1....
was 104.52 males/100 females.

Culture

Dialects of Mandarin are spoken over most of the province, and most Mandarin dialects in Hebei are in turn classified as part of the Ji Lu Mandarin subdivision. Regions along the western border with Shanxi

Shanxi

is a political divisions of China in the North China of the People's Republic of China. Its one-character abbreviation is Jin , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....
, however, have dialects that are distinct enough for linguists to consider them as part of Jin, another subdivision of Chinese, rather than Mandarin. In general, the dialects of Hebei are quite similar to and readily intelligible with the Beijing dialect

Beijing dialect

Beijing dialect is the dialect of Mandarin spoken in the urban area of Beijing, China. The Beijing dialect is the basis of Standard Mandarin, the standard official Chinese spoken language that is used by the People's Republic of China , the Republic of China , and Singapore....
, which forms the basis for Standard Mandarin

Standard Mandarin

Standard Mandarin, or Standard Chinese, is the official modern Spoken Chinese used in People's Republic of China and Republic of China, and is one of the four official languages of Languages of Singapore....
, the official language of the nation. However, there are also some distinct differences, such as differences in the pronunciation of certain words that derive from entering tone

Entering tone

A checked tone, commonly known by its Chinese calque entering tone is one of four syllable types in the phonology in Middle Chinese which are commonly translated as "tone"....
syllables (syllables ending on a plosive) in Middle Chinese

Middle Chinese

Middle Chinese , or Ancient Chinese as used by linguist Bernhard Karlgren, refers to the Chinese language spoken during Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui dynasty, Tang dynasty, and Song dynasty dynasties ....
.

Traditional forms of Chinese opera

Chinese opera

Chinese opera is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China with roots going back as far as the third century CE. There are numerous regional branches of Chinese opera, of which the Beijing opera is one of the most notable....
in Hebei include Pingju

Pingju

Pingju is a form of local Chinese opera from North China. It originated in Tangshan, Hebei, near the city of Tianjin.The term P?ngj? was also formerly used to refer to Beijing opera....
, Hebei Bangzi, and Cangzhou Kuaiban Dagu. Pingju is especially popular: it tends to be colloquial in language and hence easy to understand for audiences. Originating from northeastern Hebei, Pingju has been influenced by other forms of Chinese opera like Beijing opera

Beijing opera

Beijing opera or Peking opera is a form of Chinese opera which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and became fully developed and recognized by the mid-19th century....
. Traditionally Pingju makes use of just a xiaosheng (young male lead), a xiaodan
Dan (Chinese opera)

Dan is the general name for female roles in Chinese opera, often referring to leading roles. There are a few different kinds of dan in Chinese opera....
(young female lead), and a xiaohualian (young comic character), though it has since diversified with the use of other roles as well.

Quyang County

Quyang County

Quyang County is under the administrative control of Baoding City, Hebei....
, in central Hebei, is famous for its Dingzhou porcelain, which includes various vessels such as bowls, plates, vases, and cups, as well as figurines. Dingzhou porcelain is usually creamy white, though it is also made in other colours.

Hebei cuisine is typically based on wheat, mutton and beans.

Famous people born in Hebei Province include:

Feng Dao
Feng Dao

Feng Dao was the Chinese government minster who, in 932, ordered the Chinese classic texts printed using movable wood blocks. About a century after the invention of block-printing, Feng Dao significantly improved the printing process, and utilized it as a political tool....
(881-954), Confucian minister
Yan Yuan (1635-1704), Confucian philosopher
Chi Jushan (1876-1962), playwright and scholar

Media

Hebei is served by Hebei Television

Hebei Television

Hebei Television , is a television network in Hebei province and all parts of the Beijing and Tianjin television viewing areas. Hebei Television also covers parts of Shandong, Henan and Shaanxi provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region....
.

Transportation

Hebei surrounds Beijing, so many important railway lines radiating out of Beijing pass through Hebei. The Jingguang Railway

Jingguang Railway

Jingguang railway is a major artery railway in the People's Republic of China connecting Beijing West railway station in Beijing to Guangzhou railway station in Guangzhou, Guangdong....
(Beijing-Guangzhou) is one of the most important: it passes through many major cities like Baoding

Baoding

Baoding is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, China....
, Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang is a prefecture-level city and the Capital of Hebei Province of China, China. It is about 320 km south of Beijing.Shijiazhuang is a newly industrialized city....
, Xingtai

Xingtai

Xingtai is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, China. The prefecture-level city of Xingtai, with a total area of 12,486 square kilometers, administers 2 district of China, 2 county-level cities and 15 county of China....
and Handan

Handan

Handan is a prefecture-level city located in the southwestern part of Hebei Province of China....
on its way through Hebei from north to south. Other important railways include the Jingjiu Railway

Jingjiu Railway

Jingjiu Railway is a railway in the People's Republic of China connecting Beijing West Railway Station in Beijing to Shenzhen Railway Station in Shenzhen, Guangdong....
(Beijing-Kowloon), the Jinghu Railway

Jinghu railway

The Jinghu railway is a train line running between Beijing and Shanghai in China through Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui Jiangsu. It has a total length of 1462 kilometres....
(Beijing-Shanghai), the Jingha Railway

Jingha railway

The Jingha railway is the rail transport that connects Beijing with Harbin in Heilongjiang Province, in mainland China. It spans 1388 kilometers....
(Beijing-Harbin), and the Jingbao Railway

Jingbao railway

The Jingbao railway is a 833 km railway from Beijing to Baotou, Inner Mongolia in mainland China. It is a very important route in northwestern China....
(Beijing-Baotou).

The recent expressway boom in China has not left Hebei behind. There are expressways to every prefecture-level city of Hebei except Chengde

Chengde

Chengde is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China, situated northeast of Beijing. It is best known as the site of the Chengde Mountain Resort, a vast imperial garden formerly used by the emperors of the Qing Dynasty....
, totalling to approximately 2000 kilometers. The total length of highways within Hebei is around 40,000 kilometers.

There are a number of ports along the Bohai Sea

Bohai Sea

Bo Hai , also known as Bohai Sea or Bohai Gulf, is the innermost Headlands and bays of the Yellow Sea on the coast of northeastern China....
, including Qinhuangdao

Qinhuangdao

Qinhuangdao is a city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It is about 300 km east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea....
(the second busiest in China with a capacity of over 100 million tons), Huanghua

Huanghua

Huanghua may refer to:*Huanghua, Hebei, a city in Cangzhou, Hebei, China*Huanghua, Changsha, the site of Changsha Huanghua International Airport in Changsha, Hunan, China...
, and Jingtang. Shijiazhuang's Zhengding Airport is the province's center of air transportation, with domestic and international flights.

Tourism

The east end of the Ming Great Wall

Great Wall of China

Qinhuangdao

Qinhuangdao is a city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It is about 300 km east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea....
. Informally known as the "First Pass of The World", Shanhaiguan was the place where Ming general Wu Sangui

Wu Sangui

Wu Sangui was a Ming Dynasty who was instrumental in the succession of rule to the Qing Dynasty in 1644. Considered by most people to be a traitor to both the Ming and the Qing dynasties, Wu declared himself Emperor of China as ruler of the Zhou Dynasty in 1678, but his revolt was quelled by the Qing Kangxi Emperor....
opened the gates to Manchu forces in 1644, beginning nearly 300 years of Manchu rule; Shanhai Pass also marks the psychological entrance / exit of Manchuria, so that for centuries Manchuria was known as "outside the Pass" or "east of the Pass". Beidaihe

Beidaihe

Beidaihe District is a District in Qinhuangdao municipality, Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It has an area of 70.14 square kilometers and a population of 66,000....
, located near Shanhaiguan, is a popular beach resort wellknown as a former meeting place for top governmental officials.

The Ming Great Wall crosses the northern part of Hebei.

The Chengde

Chengde

Mountain Resort

The Mountain Resort in Chengde or Ligong situated in the city of Chengde in Hebei Province, China, is the world's largest existing imperial garden....
and its outlying temples are a World Heritage Site

World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
. Also known as the Rehe Palace, this was the summer resort of the Manchu Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty , also known as the Manchu Dynasty, followed the Ming Dynasty in History of China, and was the last ruling Chinese Dynasties of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 ....
emperors. The Chengde Resort was built between 1703 and 1792, and consists of a palace complex, a large park area consisting of lakes, pavilions, causeways, bridges, etc., and a number of Tibetan Buddhist and Han Chinese temples in the surrounding area.

There are Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty

Tomb

For the New York prison see The Tombs.A tomb is a repository for the remains of the death. The term generally refers to any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes....
s at Zunhua

Zunhua

Zunhua is a county-level city of Tangshan, Hebei, China. Historic sites include the Eastern Qing Tombs ....
(Eastern Qing Tombs

Eastern Qing Tombs

The Eastern Qing Tombs , located 125 kilometers northwest of Beijing, are among the finest and largest extant Mausoleum complexes in China. Altogether 5 emperors , 15 empresses, 136 imperial concubines, 3 princes, and 2 princesses of the Qing Dynasty were buried here....
) and Yixian

Yi County, Hebei

Yi County is a county of China in Hebei province of China. and is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Baoding. It has an area of ??? km?....
(West Qing Tombs). The Eastern Qing Tombs are the resting place of 161 Qing emperors, empresses, and other members of the Qing imperial family, while the West Qing Tombs have 76. These are also part of a World Heritage Site

World Heritage Site

Zhaozhou

Zh?ozhou Congshen , was a Zen Buddhism master especially known for his "paradoxical statements and strange deeds".Zhaozhou became ordained as a Buddhist monasticism at an early age....
Anji Bridge, built by Li Chun during the Sui Dynasty

Sui Dynasty

The Sui Dynasty followed the Southern and Northern Dynasties and preceded the Tang Dynasty in China. It ended nearly four centuries of division between rival regimes....
, is the oldest stone arch bridge

Arch bridge

An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its structural load partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side....
in China, and one of the most significant examples of pre-modern Chinese civil engineering

Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a Professional Engineer discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings....
.

Baoding

Baoding

Baoding is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, China....
, the old provincial capital, contains the historical Zhili Governor's Residence.

Xibaipo, a village about 90 km from Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang

Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and the ruling party of the People's Republic of China and the world's largest political party....
and the headquarters of the People's Liberation Army

People's Liberation Army

Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War or , which lasted from April 1927 to May 1950, was a civil war in China between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party ....
between May 26, 1948 and March 23, 1949, at which point they were moved to Beijing

Beijing

Sports

Sports teams based in Hebei include:

Chinese Basketball Association

Chinese Basketball Association

The Chinese Basketball Association is the premier professional basketball List of professional sports leagues in People's Republic of China. It is commonly known as the CBA, and this acronym is often used even in Chinese language....

There are no teams based in Hebei.

Chinese Football Association
There are no teams based in Hebei.

Colleges and universities

Under the national Ministry of Education:

North China Electric Power University
North China Electric Power University

North China Electric Power University is a university based in Beijing, PRC under the national Ministry of Education that specializes in polytechnic disciplines....

Under other national agencies:

Central Institute for Correctional Police
Central Institute for Correctional Police

The Central Institute for Correctional Police is located in Baoding, Hebei, PRC, at the heart of Beijing-Tianjin-Shijiazhuang triangle area. It is 130 kilometers from the capital of China....
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Chinese People's Armed Police Force Academy
Chinese People's Armed Police Force Academy

The Chinese People's Armed Police Force Academy is an academy in Langfang, Hebei, PRC....
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North China Institute of Science and Technology
North China Institute of Science and Technology

The North China Institute of Science and Technology is a university in Hebei, PRC which was founded in 1984. The only public university affiliated to the State Administration of Work Safety, the Institute was originally the branch school of the Beijing Coal Management Institute at Yanjiao....

Under the provincial government:

Chengde Medical College
Chengde Medical College

Chengde Medical College is a university in Hebei, People's Republic of China under the provincial government. Established in 1945, it adopted its current name in 1982....
Handan College
Handan College

Handan College is a university based in Handan, Hebei province, PRC. It is a comprehensive university which offers courses from the Humanities to Sciences....
Hebei Agricultural University
Hebei Agricultural University

Agricultural University of Hebei is a university in Baoding, Hebei, PRC under the provincial government.External links...
Hebei Engineering University
Hebei Engineering University

Hebei University of Engineering is one of the top universities in Hebei Province, PRC,and is under the provincial government....
Hebei Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Hebei Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Hebei Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering is a university in Hebei, PRC under the provincial government.External links ...
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Hebei Medical University
Hebei Medical University

Hebei Medical University is a university in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PRC under the provincial government.External links...
Hebei Normal University
Hebei Normal University

Hebei Normal University is a university in Hebei, PRC under the provincial government....
Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology
Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology

Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology is a university in Hebei, PRC under the provincial government....
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Hebei North University
Hebei North University

Hebei North University is a multi-faculty university in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, PRC under the provincial government.Hebei North University was founded in 2003 and combined former three provincial institutions of higher learning in Zhangjiakou with long histories:Hebei North University has 26 teaching departments, 5 teaching sectors and 2 teac...
Hebei Physical Educational Institute
Hebei Physical Educational Institute

The Hebei Institute of Physical Education is a sports institute in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PRC. Founded in 1984, the institute merged with the Hebei Sports School in 2002....
Hebei Polytechnic University
Hebei Polytechnic University

Hebei Polytechnic University is a university in Hebei, PRC under the provincial government. The university currently has about 30,000 students and about 800 faculty members....
Hebei University
Hebei University

Hebei University is a university in Baoding, Hebei, PRC under the provincial government.External links...
Hebei University of Economics and Business
Hebei University of Economics and Business

Hebei University of Economics and Business is a university in Hebei, PRC under the provincial government. It is located in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province, P.R.China. It has four campuses....
Hebei University of Technology
Hebei University of Technology

Hebei University of Technology is a public university whose main campus lies in the Guangrong Dao neighborhood of the Hongqiao District in Tianjin, China....
Hebei University of Science and Technology
Hebei University of Science and Technology

Hebei University of Science and Technology is one of the key, multi-disciplinary University in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. It offers undergraduate degrees in science and engineering courses....
Hengshui University
Hengshui University

Hengshui University is a university in Hengshui, Hebei province, PRC, established by the provincial government....
Langfang Teacher's College
Langfang Teacher's College

Langfang Teachers College is a university in Hebei, PRC under the provincial government....
North China Coal Medical College
North China Coal Medical College

North China Coal Medical University is a university in Hebei, PRC, founded by a United Kingdom surgeon and now under provincial governance. At one time it was the only medical university in China....
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Shijiazhuang College
Shijiazhuang College

Shijiazhuang College is a university located in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China under the provincial government. ...
Shijiazhuang Railway Institute
Shijiazhuang Railway Institute

Shijiazhuang Railway Institute is a university in Hebei, PRC under the provincial government. The campus of which is located at No.18 Sishuichang Road Qiaodong district Shijiazhaung City Hebei Province P.O: 050041...
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Shijiazhuang University of Economics
Shijiazhuang University of Economics

Shijiazhuang University of Economics is a university in Hebei, PRC under the provincial government....
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Tangshan College
Tangshan College

Tangshan College is a college in Hebei, People's Republic of China under the provincial government....
Tangshan Teacher's College
Tangshan Teacher's College

Tangshan Teacher's College is a college in Hebei, People's Republic of China under the provincial government....
Xingtai University
Xingtai University

Xingtai University is a university in Hebei, People's Republic of China under the provincial government....
Yanshan University
Yanshan University

Yanshan University is a university in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, People's Republic of China under the provincial government....

Hebei

History

Geography

Administrative divisions

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Economy

Economic and Technological Development ZonesEconomic and Technological Development ZonesThe China National Economic and Technological Development Zones are the special areas of the People's Republic of China where foreign direct investment is encouraged....

Demographics

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Transportation

Tourism

Sports

Colleges and universities

See also

External links

Economic and Technological Development Zones
Economic and Technological Development Zones

The China National Economic and Technological Development Zones are the special areas of the People's Republic of China where foreign direct investment is encouraged....