16 Facts About Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang, formerly known as Shimen and romanized as Shihkiachwang, is the capital and largest city of North China's Hebei Province.

Shijiazhuang experienced dramatic growth after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

From 2008 to 2011, Shijiazhuang implemented a three-year plan which concluded with the reorganization of the city resulting in an increase of green areas and new buildings and roads.

The word Shijiazhuang was general used after construction of Shijiazhuang station of Zhengtai Railway in 1907.

In Chinglish style, Shijiazhuang can be translated from characters meaning to words named Rock-Home-Town, the same meaning as Hometown of Rock to call.

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Name "Shijiazhuang" was first mentioned in 1535 on a stele of a local temple.

Shijiazhuang was then little more than a local market town, subordinated to the flourishing city of Zhengding a few miles to the north.

Pre-World War II Shijiazhuang was a large railway town as well as a commercial and collecting center for Shanxi and regions farther west and for agricultural produce of the North China Plain, particularly grain, tobacco, and cotton.

Shijiazhuang was one of the fourteen cities selected as focus cities for development.

In 2013, the county-level city of Xinji, although still part of Shijiazhuang prefecture, is directly administered by Hebei province.

Shijiazhuang is located in south-central Hebei, and is part of the Bohai Economic Rim.

Shijiazhuang has become a major industrial city in North China and is considered to be the economic center of Hebei province, along with Tangshan.

Shijiazhuang is a transportation hub at the intersection point of the Beijing–Guangzhou, Taiyuan–Dezhou, and Shuozhou–Huanghua railways.

Shijiazhuang is headquarters of the 27th Group Army of the People's Liberation Army, one of the three group armies that comprise the Beijing Military Region responsible for defending China's capital.

City of Shijiazhuang is similar to Beijing in that all roads run from north to south and east to west, making the city easy to navigate.

Shijiazhuang Ever Bright F C is a Chinese football club based in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, which competes in the Chinese Super League.