Natural Environment

Hebei Province is located between lying in the North China Plain, stretching to the Inner Mongolia Plateau, and facing the Bohai Sea to the east. Its neighbors include Beijing and Tianjin in the middle. The topography of the province slopes down from northwest to southeast. While mountains, hills and plateau cover its territory in the northwest with scattered basins and valleys, vast plains stretch over the central and southeastern part of its land. The coastline of the province is 487 kilometers long. It covers an area of 188 thousand square km with a population of 67.44 million.

The province has a temperate continental monsoon climate, which varies greatly due to its vastness, and most of the territory has clear-cut seasons. Its annual sunshine time is 2400-3000 hours, annual frost-free period 120-200 days, annual precipitation 300-800mm, annual average temperature