(1)外文名称: Hebei Province
    (2)中文名称: 河北省
    (3)内容:

                        Hebei Province

   Lying on the North China Plain, Hebei Province has an area of 187,700 sq km and a population of a little over 63 million. The provincial capital is Shijiazhuang, a railway hub and rising center located about 270 km south of Beijing.
   On the province's long coastline are many ports, the most important one being Qinhuangdao, the world's largest coal terminal, from which 61 million tons of the fossil fuel were shipped to the southern part of China and to many other countries. The bulk of the coal was carried directly to Qinhuangdao Harbor by a double-track, electrified railroad from Shanxi Province.
   Eastern Hebei Province is a flat, alluvial plain on which grow luxuriant crops of wheat, cotton, corn, paddy, tobacco, peanut and sesame. In the western part is the rugged Taihang Mountain Area which, besides producing wheat and other cereal crops, also grows walnut, persimmon, date and a wide variety of fruit.
   Located in northeastern Hebei Province not far northeast of the great port of Tianjin is the Kailuan Coal Mines, one of the major coal producers in China. Sizable reserves of oil, iron and other deposits have also been found in the province. Petroleum are tapped on quite a scale in the Renqiu Area in southeastern Hebei Province.