Xingtai, formerly known as Xingzhou and Shunde, is a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province, a node city of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration, an advanced manufacturing base and logistics hub in south-central Hebei Province. By 2020, the city will have four districts, 12 counties and 2 county-level cities, with a total area of12,400 square kilometers.
According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 on June165438+1October 65438 in 2020, the resident population of Xingtai City was 71106. In 2022, the city's GDP reached 254.69 billion yuan. Xingtai is located in North China and southern Hebei, with Beijing-Guangzhou and Beijing-Kowloon railways, Beijing-Guangzhou and Beijing-Kowloon high-speed railways, Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao, Daguang and Taihang Mountains running through the north and south.
Xingtai has a history of more than 3500 years. 50,000 to/kloc-0,000 years ago, people lived there. It is the first city in the history of northern China, known as "the ancient capital of five dynasties and the male county of ten generations". More than 3000 years have passed, the administrative system has not been interrupted, and the city site has not been moved. Xingtai ancient city is the earliest "first ancient city" in the north of the Yellow River and is known as "the first city of Zhaoyan".
Xingtai is also the ancestral home of the royal family (Tang Zuling) in the Tang Dynasty. There have been events that have influenced the historical process of China, such as Yao Shun's abdication, Khufu's riding and shooting, the Battle of the Julu, the Yellow Scarf Uprising and so on. Nearly 100 idioms and allusions originated in Xingtai.
Natural resources in Xingtai:
Xingtai * * * has 2 rivers1,all of which belong to Ziya River and Heilonggang River in Haihe River Basin, with a total length of 1052 km and dikes12 1 km. There are 16 spillway and 5 drainage channels. Fuyang River flows through the urban area from south to north and is divided into Fuxin and Heilonggang. Wei Canal only passes through the eastern border, with no tributaries flowing in.
Xingtai is high in the west and low in the east, with Taihang Mountain in the west, hills in the middle and North China Plain in the east, with an area ratio of 2: 1: 7. By the end of 20 15, the city's cultivated land area was 694,044 hectares; Garden area of 55336 hectares; Woodland area 13438+00000 hectares; Grassland area is 79,076 hectares; Urban villages and industrial and mining land are 6.5438+0.59265 million hectares.