Chengde

Overview

Location: located between north latitude 40^o11'- 42^o40' and east longitude115^o54'- 119^o15' in the northeast of the Hebei Province, the hinterland of Yanshan Mountain Chain; 435 kilometers away from its provincial capital, Shijiazhuang, 256 kilometers from Beijing

Neighboring Areas: Beijing and Tianjin Municipalities; Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Liaoning Provinces; Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Physical Feature: consisted of two type of landforms: plateau and hilly area; with the specified three-dimensional land resource; being surrounded by mountains

Population: 3.53 million
Urban Population: 0.20 million
Area: 40,000 sq km

Nationalities: Han, Hui, Manchu, Mongolian and Korean

History: a famous cultural city with about 300 years history; used to be the second political center in the Qing Dynasty, with the largest extant royal garden in China; commonly called as 'Rehe', for the sake of having the ever flowing and unfrozen spring here; used to be the provincial capital of Rehe Province in 1928

Climatic Features: temperate continental monsoon and hilly area climate; four seasons clearly; cold winters without cold current; cool summers without hot period; with enough sunshine of 2,000 hours annually and frost-free period of 110-220 days

Average Temperature: 4-13^oC annually
Rainfall: annual precipitation 800 mm

Mountains: Mt. Luohanshan, Mt. Tianqiaoshan, Mt. Jiguanshan, Mt. Shuangtashan, Mt. Yuanbaoshan, Mt. Wulingshan, the Yanshan Mountain Chain

Rivers: Luanhe River, Beisanhe River, Liaohe River, Dalinghe River, Wuliehe River, Chenghu Lake, Ruyihu Lake, Jinghu Lake

Local Highlights: Hebeibangzi, Pingju Drama

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