Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang is the capital of Hebei Province. Shijiazhuang is China's first big city that allows the immigrant population to settle in it without paying any fees.
It has 6 districts, 12 counties, 5 county-level cities and 1 national-level new and high-tech development zone under its prefecture. Shijiazhuang has a population of 9.395 million, 2.313 million of whom live in the urban area.
Shijiazhuang is a relatively new city, whose main growth began in the 1950s, but really dates to the 1920s. What was a tiny village of little more than ninety families found itself at the junction of three major rail lines and thereafter its growth soared. Once it became so large, but the name still retains the character for "village" (zhuang). English speakers are known to have a notorious bad pronunciation of the city's name, therefore most people refer to Shijiazhuang as "Shi-City" or the "S-City".
It has 6 districts, 12 counties, 5 county-level cities and 1 national-level new and high-tech development zone under its prefecture. Shijiazhuang has a population of 9.395 million, 2.313 million of whom live in the urban area.
Shijiazhuang is a relatively new city, whose main growth began in the 1950s, but really dates to the 1920s. What was a tiny village of little more than ninety families found itself at the junction of three major rail lines and thereafter its growth soared. Once it became so large, but the name still retains the character for "village" (zhuang). English speakers are known to have a notorious bad pronunciation of the city's name, therefore most people refer to Shijiazhuang as "Shi-City" or the "S-City".
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