What year did Shijiazhuang become the capital of Hebei?

On January 29, 1968, the capital of Hebei Province was moved from Baoding to Shijiazhuang, and Shijiazhuang became the capital of Hebei Province.

On December 26, 1947, the People's Government of the Republic of China (R.O.C.) issued a notice changing the name of Shijiazhuang City to Shijiazhuang City. Between May, R.O.C. 37 (1948) and March, R.O.C. 38 (1949), Xibaipo in Pingshan County, northwest of Shijiazhuang City, was the seat of the headquarters of the C*** Central Committee and the People's Liberation Army.

Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee commanded the "Three Battles" that decided China's destiny, and convened the famous Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China (CPC). On December 1, 1948, the People's Bank of China was established in Shijiazhuang on Zhonghua North Street, and issued the first set of new China's renminbi.

August 1, 1949, Shijiazhuang City under the leadership of the People's Government of Hebei Province, a provincial municipality. On January 29, 1968, the capital of Hebei Province was moved from Baoding to Shijiazhuang, and Shijiazhuang became the capital of Hebei Province.

On June 30, 1993, the Shijiazhuang Regional Administrative Office merged with the People's Government of Shijiazhuang and a new People's Government of Shijiazhuang was established.

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City Introduction:

Shijiazhuang is the capital city of Hebei Province, and the province's center of politics, economy, science and technology, finance, culture and information. Is approved by the State Council to implement the coastal open policy and financial opening up of the city. Shijiazhuang City is located in the hinterland of the North China Plain, north of Beijing and Tianjin, east of the Bohai Sea, west of the Taihang Mountains, is the capital of the southern gate.

Now has jurisdiction over six districts, 12 counties, five county-level cities and a national high-tech development zones, with a total area of 15,800 square kilometers, a resident population of 9.175 million, of which the urban area of 455.8 square kilometers, a population of 2.173 million. Shijiazhuang is a new city that has risen with the opening of the modern railroad. The city is young, and the land where she is rooted is ancient and even more fertile.

Since the founding of new China, especially since the reform and opening up, the people of Shijiazhuang glowing with accelerated development, rich and strong city of vitality and vigor, in the tide of participation in the global economic competition, and continue to create excellent performance. At present, Shijiazhuang has become one of the important center city in northern China with obvious economic characteristics, prominent leading industries, rich people's lives, and broad prospects for development.

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