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China
Travel Service offers China tours, China tour
packages, Yangtze cruises, tours to Beijing, Shanghai,
Xi'an, Guilin, Tibet and Hongkong |
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Hebei
Province
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Location:
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Lying on the North China
Plain |
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Area:
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187,700 sq km |
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Climate:
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The province has a temperate
continental monsoon climate, which varies
greatly due to its vastness, and most
of the territory has clear-cut seasons.
Its annual sunshine time is 2400-3100
hours. annual frost-free period 120-200
days. annual precipitation 300-800mm,
annual average temperature 0 degree
to 13 degree. |
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provincial capital:
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Shijiazhuang |
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Population:
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67,44 millions (March
2001) |
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Ethnic groups:
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The population of Han
nationality,accounts for 96% of the
total; the rest is composed of people
from 53 minority nationalities including
Manchu, Hui Mongolian,Zhuang, Korean,
Miao, Tujia, etc, |
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Major Cities:
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Cangzhou; Chengde; Qinhuangdao(Including
Beidaihe and Shanhaiguan); Tangshan;
Baoding; Zhangjiakou |
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Agriculture:
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Eastern Hebei Province
is a flat, alluvial plain on which grow
luxuriant crops of wheat, cotton, corn,
paddy, tobacco, peanut and sesame. In
the western part is the rugged Taihang
Mountain Area which, besides producing
wheat and other cereal crops, also grows
walnut, persimmon, date and a wide variety
of fruit. |
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Industry:
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Located in
northeastern Hebei Province not far
northeast of the great port of Tianjin
is the Kailuan Coal Mines, one of the
major coal producers in China. Sizable
reserves of oil, iron and other deposits
have also been found in the province.
Petroleum are tapped on quite a scale
in the Renqiu Area in southeastern Hebei
Province. |
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