Shijiazhuang

     

Since reforming and opening to the outside world, Shijiazhuang City has actively carried out extensive international come-and-go and exchange, and has become successively a sister city with 10 cities from Japan, Canada, Italy, USA, Great Britan, South Korea, Mexico, and Sweden,. Held every 2 years, “Wuqiao Acrobatic Art Festival of China”is a brand platform for Shijiazhuang to enlarge the exchange and integration with other countries and regions in the world in politics, economy and culture. (An appendix of sister cities).

Topaographic Features

Shijiazhuang has two landforms-Taihang Mountains and North China Plain. The west part belongs to the middle section of Taihang Mountains, including Jingxing county and Jingxing mining area, the mountainous area of Pingshan, Zanhuang, Xangtang, Lingtang and Luquan, 50% of Shijiazhuang's total territory. The east part is alluvia-proluvial plain, including Xinle, Wuji, Shenze, Xinji, Jinzhou, Gaocheng, Gaoyi, Zhao County, Luancheng, Zhengding, Shijiazhuang, and the plain area of Pingshan, Zanhuang, Xingtang, Lingshou, Luquan, Yuanshi shi. The gradient from the West - Pingshan to Shijiazhuang is 1/1400-1/1200, and 1/1200-1/1400 from Shijiazhuang to the East - Xinji. Its dominant area is just in the contiguous area of the mountains of Shanxi and the sunken area of Bohai so that it is low in the East and high in the West, and its landforms are complex. The sea level elevation of Taihang Mountains in the West is 1000 meters or so, and on the east of Jingguang Railway it belongs to Huabei Plain. The platforms are mountain, small mountain, hill, basin and plain from west to east. The highest point within Shijiazhuang is Tuoliang Mountain, which has a sea level elevation of 2281 meters, and it is the fifth highest mountain in Hebei province. The eastern plain is classified as alluvia-proluvial plain in front of Taihang Mountains according to its origin that has an average sea level elevation of about 30-100 meters, and of which the Beipang village of Xinji is the lowest point, only 28 meters. (the following data provided by Municipal Urban Planning Bureau) inside the second-order loop of Shjiazhuang it is low in the Southeast where the sea level elevation is 81.5 meters, and high in the Northeast where the sea level elevation is 64.3 meters.
Geographic Location
Sitting in the central south of vast North China Plain,Shijiazhuang City is located at the longitude of 114°29'E, and the latitude of 38°04'N.With the Capital-Beijing and Port City–Tianjin in the North, and Bohai Sea and North China Oilfields in the east, and the towering Taihang Mountains and the coal bases in China–Shanxin Province in the west, Shijiazhuang City was called “the Nation Capital's Suburbs”in the old times. Shijiazhuang City enjoyes convenient transportation conditions, called as “a gate from south to north and the throat from Hebei to Shanxi”.