Xingtai City, referred to as "Xing" for short, was called Xingzhou and Shunde in ancient times, and is located in the south of Hebei. Taihang Mountain borders Shanxi Province in the west, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the east, Shandong Province in the north, Shijiazhuang and Hengshui in the north and Handan in the south. It is the northern gateway city of Zhongyuan urban agglomeration and an important node city of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration.

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Xingtai city governs 2 districts, 2 cities 15 counties, with a total area of12,500 square kilometers and a total population of 7,899,200. Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railway, Beijing-Kowloon High-speed Railway, Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway, Daguang Expressway and Taihang Expressway run through the north and south, and Xinghe Railway, Huangxing Railway, Xingheng Expressway, Xingfen Expressway and Xinglin Expressway.

Xingtai city has a history of more than 3,500 years and 800 years. People lived and multiplied 50,000 to/kloc-0,000 years ago? The first city in the history of northern China, one of the top ten ancient cities in China and one of the earliest cities in China, is called "Zhaoyan First City". Xingtai ancient city has the reputation of "the first city in southern Beijing".

In the history of Xingtai, the city was built four times and the capital five times, and it is known as "the ancient capital of five generations and the male county of ten generations". Guo Shoujing, Li Mu, Song Jing, Liu and other sages emerged in the long river of history, leaving Guo Wei, Chai Rong, Meng Zhixiang, Meng Chang and other emperors behind. Qin Shihuang died in Xingtai sand dunes during his crusade. Xingtai is also the ancestral home of the royal family in the Tang Dynasty. There have been events that influenced the historical process of China, such as Yao and Shun's abdication, riding and shooting, the Battle of Julu, and the Yellow Scarf Uprising. There are more than 300 idioms and allusions from Xingtai, such as cross the rubicon, who will win the battle, the essence of human beings, and being attacked between Scylla and Charybdis.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-China City New Rank Ranking