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Shijiazhuang is the capital and largest city of Hebei Province in northern China, positioned southwest of Beijing. The city administers a significant area encompassing eight districts, three county-level cities, and eleven counties, making it an important administrative and population center in the region.
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Travel guide
Understand
Shijiazhuang is a comparatively young city. It was an unimportant town until the Zhengding-Taiyuan and Beijing-Hankou railways were built, whereupon it become a regional transport hub. Captured by the People's Liberation Army under the leadership of the Communist Party in 1947, it was the cradle of the new China, and for three years housed the party headquarters.
Get around
Most tourist attractions are outside the city.
Traffic is marginal, except at rush hour, at which point it could take as much as 20 minutes to get through certain intersections on many of the major roads (especially Ping'An Da Jie, Zhongshan Lu, Yuhua Lu, Jianshe Da Jie and Zhonghua Lu).
See
There are a number of sightseeing places in the area, both natural and historic. Most are not in the city.
Buy
Shijiazhuang is home to large wholesale markets and a good place for great bargains. Be prepared to haggle. There are also a number of very large modern department stores. One of them on the east side of the city is Yuhua Wanda, located on Huai An Lu just east of Century Park, features fast food and an IMAX movie theater, and numerous reasonably priced clothing stores.
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