Xingtai City, referred to as "Xing" in ancient times as Xingzhou and Shunde Prefecture, is a prefectural city in Hebei Province and a type II large city. It has been approved by the Hebei Provincial government as a node city of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city cluster, an advanced manufacturing base and a logistics hub in southern Hebei Province . By the end of 2022, the city has jurisdiction over 4 districts, 12 counties and 2 county-level cities, with a total area of 12,400 square kilometers , a permanent population of 7,025,600 and an urban population of 3,881,600, with an urbanization rate of 55.25% .
Xingtai is located in the south of Hebei Province, the eastern foot of the southern section of Taihang Mountains and the western edge of North China Plain. It faces Shandong Province in the east by the Wei Canal, borders Taihang Mountains and Shanxi Province in the west, is connected to Handan City in the south, borders Shijiazhuang City in the north and Hengshui City in the northeast, and is 106 kilometers away from the provincial capital Shijiazhuang and 396 kilometers away from Beijing in the north .
Xingtai is known as "the ancient capital of five dynasties, ten dynasties male county", after more than 3,000 years of administrative system has not been interrupted, the city site has not been moved. Xingtai Ancient City is the earliest "first ancient city" in the area north of the Yellow River, known as "the first city of Yanzhao". The long history of the emergence of Guo Shoujing, Wei Zheng , Li Mu, Song Jing, Liu Bingzhong and other sages, out of the Guo Wei, Chai Rong, Meng Zhixiang, Meng Chang and other emperors, the first emperor Qin Shihuang died in Xingtai sand dune on the east tour . Xingtai is also the ancestral home of the Tang Dynasty royal family (Tang Ancestral Mausoleum) . There have been events affecting the course of Chinese history, such as the abdications of Yao and Shun, the battle of Giant Deer, the Yellow Turban Uprising, etc. There are nearly 100 idioms and allusions derived from Xingtai。
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