Shijiazhuang, referred to as "Shi", formerly known as Shimen, Hebei Province, prefecture-level city, the capital of Hebei Province, is the State Council approved the identification of China's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, one of the important center of the city. As of 2020, the city has 8 districts, 11 counties and 3 county-level cities under its jurisdiction, with a total area of 14,464 square kilometers (including Xinji City) and a built-up area of 338.16 square kilometers. As of the end of 2021, the resident population of Shijiazhuang was 11,211,200.
Shijiazhuang is located in North China, south-central Hebei Province, the Bohai Bay Economic Zone, is the political, economic, scientific and technological, financial, cultural and information center of Hebei Province, the central war zone, the resident of the Army authorities, is the State Council approved the implementation of the coastal open policy and financial opening up of the city to the outside world, and also an important distribution center of the country's commodities and the north of the important large commercial port, one of the national trade fair center city, China International Digital Economy Expo permanently organized, China (Hebei) Pilot Free Trade Zone component.