It was late April when we visited the Zhao Ling Pu Commune, just north of Shi-jia-zhuang, Hebei Province. With our hosts we sipped tea and munched dry-roasted peanuts — a delicious example of the commune’s production.
A biography of Hu claims that Hu's attitudes changed in 1961, after he was sent to supervise agricultural policy changes in Tang county, Hebei province.
Empress Liu (ca. 890-926 A.D.), whose birthplace was Chenan in Wei (now Chenan county, Hebei province), was the wife of Li Cunxu, who reigned as Emperor Zhuangzong, during the Tang dynasty.
2008 September 30, “27 suspects arrested in tainted milk scandal”, in France 24[4], archived from the original on 09 September 2023, China[5]:
Police in northern China have arrested 27 people in their probe into tainted milk that has sickened 53,000 children and embarrassed China's reputation abroad, state media reported Tuesday. The 27 are among 36 detained since law enforcers in Hebei province started investigating Sanlu Group, the company at the centre of the scandal, earlier this month.
“This first wave of relocated companies are all highly polluting, high energy-consuming type businesses that will be a burden wherever they go, so at present the enthusiasm of Tianjin and Hebei to take them on isn’t high,” a district official from the Hebei city of Chengde told the newspaper.
2018 January 17, David Stanway, “Cities in China's Hebei province still top list of smoggiest places”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters[8], archived from the original on 13 February 2019, Environment[9]:
According to figures published by the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), Hebei's provincial capital of Shijiazhuang saw the highest average reading in all of China last year of particulate matter with a width of 2.5 microns, known as PM2.5, which is easily inhaled into the lungs to cause respiratory damage. Hebei's smog levels have an outsized effect on China's capital of Beijing since the province surrounds the city. Also among China's ten worst performing cities were Hebei's cities of Handan and Tangshan, the world's biggest steel producing city, as well as Xingtai, Baoding and Hengshui.
More than 360 people have tested positive for coronavirus in an outbreak in Hebei province, south of Beijing. The National Health Commission reported yesterday that 69 new cases had been confirmed in 24 hours, including 46 in Hebei. Travel between Hebei and Beijing has been restricted, with workers having to show proof of employment to enter the capital.
2021 October 13, Weiwei Xu, Aparajit Chakraborty, Arunava Das, “Doctor's inspiring legacy given a fresh take”, in China Daily[12], archived from the original on 13 October 2021:
After determined efforts, Dwarkanath Kotnis finally arrived in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region in 1940 to be part of the Hundred-Regiment Campaign. He then moved to Gegong village, Tangxian county, Hebei province, where he performed surgeries in the line of fire.
2023 August 5, “China hit by more floods after Typhoon Doksuri”, in Deutsche Welle[13], archived from the original on 05 August 2023, China[14]:
So far, at least 22 people have died in Beijing and the surrounding Hebei province this week amid the heavy rains. State media reported Saturday that waters have started to recede in the hard-hit Hebei city of Zhuozhou.
The Dabei (Mahakaruna) Temple on Tianwei Road in the Hebei District is the only Buddhist temple of good size in Tianjin.
2010 March, “Tianjin”, in Travel in China: A Guidebook for Travelers to China [中国旅游指南][16], Beijing: China Travel & Tourism Press [中国旅游出版社], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80, column 2:
Totally, Tianjin has four passenger railway stations, of which the Tianjin North Railway Station, located in Hebei District, is where the Beijing-Harbin Railway and the Beijing-Shanghai Railway meet.
2010 May, Jeanie Carroll, “History and Modern Perspective”, in 厉静, editor, Tianjin Basics [精彩天津][17], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press [五洲传播出版社], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:
Hebei district is an area that is not as frantic as its neighbor Heping district and offers lots of cultural sightseeing within walking distance like the Ancient Culture Street, Wanghailou Church and Shizilin Bridge.
2023 June 6, “Strengthened lifelong learning and sharing of good practice with Urban CLCs in Tianjin”, in UNESCO[18], archived from the original on 07 October 2023, News[19]:
Ms. Li Xiaoxia, Deputy Mayor of the Hebei District People’s Government of Tianjin Municipality, addressed in her speech the significance of the project for the Hebei District. Ms Xiaoxia[sic] reiterated the District Government’s strong support and commitment to quality education and lifelong learning in Tianjin City.
The triple city of Wuhan, capital of Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei] province, lies on the middle reaches of the Yangzi River at its confluence with the Han River, and on the main north-south railway linking Peking and Canton.
1982, Ruth Lor Malloy, “Destinations”, in The Morrow Travel Guide to the People's Republic of China[21], 2nd Revised edition, Quill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
SHASHI (Shashih, Shasi), on the north side of the Yangtze River west of Wuhan in Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei], is passed on the Yangtze Gorges boat trip.
In 1958 he began work as a Secretary with the No 14 Administrative Region of Shuanglong District and two years later joined the air force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Wuhan, Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei], China.[…]Over the years, he has held various appointments, including former trustee of the journalists association and research society of the College newspapers of the institutions of higher learning in Hubei, correspondent of Information newspaper and newspaper of Wuhan Grain Industry College, editor of the Reference on Party and Government at colleges and universities and trustee of the research society of the management of personnel affairs at the institutions of higher learning in Sichuan.
1994, Diana B. Kingsbury, “The Authors”, in 金婉婷 [Diana B. Kingsbury], transl., I Wish I Were a Wolf: The New Voice in Chinese Women's Literature [我要属狼：中国当代女性文学选][23], 1st edition, Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 248:
Li Xiaojiang was born in 1952 in Henan Province. She worked in the countryside for three years during the Cultural Revolution before being assigned a job as fitter and driver in a machine factory in Wuhan, Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei] Province.
Natural gas use is due to grow in central China with the planned construction of an 800-km gas pipeline scheme from southwest Sichuan Province to Wuhan, capital of Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei] Province in south-central China.
But the first officially sanctioned bets in more than half a century may soon be placed in Wuhan, Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei] Province, which held a trial run on its new racetrack last November.
Other protesters came from farther afield. Members of one group of about 40, from Badong County in Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei] Province, said that the county government had organized bus transportation but that the demonstrators had paid for it.
Police in Wuhan, Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei] province have caught a gang of burglars who used a fishing rod to steal money from residents in ground-floor flats, the Chutian Metropolis Daily reports.
The man, aged 27, whose full name was not given, fell in the street on Monday in Wuhan in Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei] province after he was returning home from a visit to hospital, according to the article.
[2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times[34], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-07, Asia Pacific[35]:
Correction: August 21, 2017 An earlier version of this article misstated the location of Wuhan. It is in Hubei Province, not Hebei.]
2020 January 16, Helen Regan, Nectar Gan, “A second person has died from a new SARS-like virus in China”, in CNN[36], archived from the original on 2020-01-17, Health:
A 69-year-old man identified only by his surname, Xiong, died on Wednesday in the central city of Wuhan in Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei] province, which is where the pneumonia-like outbreak originated, local health officials said in a statement.
2020 February 1, Zhihao Zhang, “Buying, taking drug under study for new virus discouraged”, in China Daily[37], archived from the original on 2020-02-02, Health[38]:
The clinical trial will take place at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, as well as the Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei] province, according to the announcement.
2020 November 4, “Shenzhen-based Laibao to build 8.5G LCD fab”, in DayStar Electric Technology Co., Ltd[39], archived from the original on 16 June 2021, News & Events[40]:
Shenzhen-based Laibao High-Tech has struck a deal with the local government in Wuhan, Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei] province to build an 8.5G LCD fab in its Donghu New Technology Development Zone, according to a company announcement.
2023 October 3, “Justice Department Announces Eight Indictments Against China-Based Chemical Manufacturing Companies and Employees”, in Office of Public Affairs, United States Department of Justice[41], archived from the original on 03 October 2023, Press Release[42]:
Lihe Pharmaceutical Technology Company, based in Wuhan, Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei] Province, China, was charged with fentanyl trafficking conspiracy and international money laundering, along with Chinese nationals Mingming Wang, 34, who is the alleged holder for three bitcoin accounts shared by sales agents for Lihe Pharmaceutical, and Xinqiang Lu, 40, the alleged recipient of funds via Western Union on the company’s behalf.
