The English name of Shijiazhuang is very funny.

The English name of Shijiazhuang is very funny: Rock= Stone = Rock Home= Home Town= Zhuang.

Shijiazhuang, referred to as "Stone" for short, formerly known as Shimen, is a prefecture-level city, provincial capital and I-type big city under the jurisdiction of Hebei Province. It is one of the important central cities of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei in China approved by the State Council.

By 2020, the city will have 8 districts, 1 1 county and 3 county-level cities (xinji city is under the administrative division of Shijiazhuang, but it is actually under the direct management of Hebei Province), with a total area of 14530 square kilometers. By the end of 20021,the resident population of Shijiazhuang was 1 1204700.

Shijiazhuang is located in North China, south-central Hebei Province, Bohai Bay Economic Zone, between 37 27 ′-38 47 ′ north latitude and113 30 ′-15 20 ′ east longitude.

It belongs to temperate monsoon climate. It is the headquarters of the Army in the Central Theater, a city approved by the State Council to implement coastal opening and financial opening, an important commodity distribution center in China, an important commercial port in the north, one of the national trade exhibition center cities, the permanent venue of the China International Digital Economy Expo, and an integral part of the China (Hebei) Pilot Free Trade Zone.

Shijiazhuang was founded in the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), then it was named "Shimen City", and was renamed as Shijiazhuang City in 1947. 1968 Hebei provincial capital moved to Shijiazhuang. The Beijing-Guangzhou, Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan, Shide and Huang Shuo railway lines meet here, which is one of the main hubs of China's railway transportation and is known as the "north-south artery and the throat of Yanjin".

Shijiazhuang is one of the first demonstration cities of scientific and technological innovation, a national semiconductor lighting industrialization base, a national satellite navigation industry base, a national animation industry development base and a national biomedical industry base.

It is a national civilized city, a national forest city and an excellent tourist city in China. Rich in tourism resources, there are many places of interest, 40 national key cultural relics protection units and/kloc-0 national historical and cultural city. Xibaipo is a national 5A-level scenic spot and the leading center of China revolution during the Liberation War.