Chengde 承德市

Located in northeast Hebei Province, 250 kilometers from Beijign, Chengde is one of the 24 famous historical and cultural cities and one of the 44 major tourist attractions in China. Surrounded by mountains and with brooks and streams running through the city, Chengde has beautiful scenery and a pleasant climate. It is here that the austere, elegant Chengde Mountain Resort, the grand “Eight Outer Temples” and the strange hills and crags combine to make Chengde a city of scenic and historical interest with a special and rational layout, as well as a tourist attraction well known both at home and abroad.

Location: located between north latitude 4011'- 4240' and east longitude11554' - 11915' 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 2000 hours annually and frost-free period of 110-220 days

Average Temperature: 4-13C 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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