Shijiazhuang (simplified Chinese: 石家庄; pinyin: Shíjiāzhuāng) is a prefecture-level city and the capital of Hebei province, China. It is about 280 km (170 mi) south of Beijing. Shijiazhuang contains the Shijiazhuang metropolitan area, the Jingxing Mining District, five county-level cities, and twelve counties.
Shijiazhuang is a newly industrialized city. It experienced dramatic growth after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The population of the urban core has more than quadrupled in only 30 years It is a central hub of transportation routes.
Shijiazhuang is home to large garrison of military troops in case of need to protect Beijing It has a number of PLA colleges and universities. Shijiazhuang was little more than a village until the beginning of the 20th century, when it became a transit point on the railway from Beijing to Wuhan in the south. Construction of a second rail line between nearby Zhengding and the northern city of Taiyuan in 1907 led to further expansion of the city. Since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, Shijiazhuang has become a political and economic center of Hebei Province, and a center of the pharmaceutical industry.
Shijiazhuang stands on the edge of the North China Plain at the foot of the Taihang Mountains, which lie to the west. The city stands south of the Hutuo River.
Climate
Shijiazhuang, though not located on the Mongolian steppe, has a steppe climate (Koppen BSk), because its annual mean temperature is 13.9 °C (57.0 °F), and there is an average of 517 millimetres (20.4 in) of annual precipitation. The area's winters are dry and somewhat cold, due to the influence of the Siberian anticyclone: January averages −1.5 °C (29.3 °F). With a July mean of 27.1 °C (80.8 °F), summers are very hot and humid, due to the influence of the East Asian monsoon; it is for the same reason that the majority of annual precipitation falls during those months, further explaining why the city features a semiarid climate.
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