Xingtai, formerly known as Xingzhou and Shunde, is a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province, a node city of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration approved by the Hebei provincial government, an advanced manufacturing base and a logistics hub in central and southern Hebei Province. ?

By 2020, the city will have jurisdiction over 4 districts, 12 counties and 2 county-level cities. Total area 12400 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 20021year, the city's GDP reached 242.7438+0 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. Xinghe, Huangxing Railway, Xingheng, Xingfen, Xinglin and Yin Qing expressways run through the east and west, and together with Xingtai International Inland Port and Xingtai Airport, they form a transportation hub that connects the east and west and the north and the 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".

Guo Shoujing, Li Mu, Song _, Liu and other sages have emerged in the long history, and emperors such as Guo Wei, Chai Rong, Meng Zhixiang and Meng Changjun have emerged. Qin Shihuang died in Xingtai dune during his east tour? . ?

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.