Cangzhou

Cangzhou 沧州市 Tsangchow
Prefecture-level city
Clockwise from the top: Iron Lion, Cangzhou Arena, Skyline of Cangzhou, Port of Huanghua, Arcadia Hotel
Nickname:  Lion City (狮城)
Location of Cangzhou City jurisdiction in Hebei
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Coordinates (Cangzhou municipal government): 38°18′17″N 116°50′19″E / 38.3047°N 116.8387°E / 38.3047; 116.8387
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hebei
Settled	517
Established	15 November 1983
Municipal seat	Yunhe District
Area
• Prefecture-level city	14,383.46 km2 (5,553.48 sq mi)
• Urban	206.2 km2 (79.6 sq mi)
• Metro	1,750.7 km2 (675.9 sq mi)
Elevation	13 m (42 ft)
Population  (2020 census)[1]
• Prefecture-level city	7,300,783
• Density	510/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
• Urban	795,832
• Urban density	3,900/km2 (10,000/sq mi)
• Metro	1,421,843
• Metro density	810/km2 (2,100/sq mi)
GDP[2]
• Prefecture-level city	CN¥ 332 billion US$ 53.3 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 44,819 US$7,196
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	061000
Area code	0317
ISO 3166 code	CN-HE-09
Licence plate prefixes	2022
Website	cangzhou.gov.cn

Cangzhou^[a] is a prefecture-level city in eastern Hebei province, People's Republic of China. At the 2020 census, Cangzhou's built-up (or metro) area made of Yunhe, Xinhua districts and Cang County largely being conurbated had a population of 1,421,843 inhabitants, while the prefecture-level administrative unit in total has a population of 7,300,783. It lies approximately 90 kilometres (56 mi) from the major port city of Tianjin, and 180 km (110 mi) from Beijing.

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Cangzhou is reported to have been founded in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period (420−589 CE).

Cangzhou City comprises 2 districts, 4 county-level cities, 9 counties and 1 autonomous county.

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1 2 Cang County Qing County Dongguang County Haixing County Yanshan County Suning County Nanpi County Wuqiao County Xian County Mengcun County Botou (city) Renqiu (city) Huanghua (city) Hejian (city) 1. Xinhua 2. Yunhe
Name	Hanzi	Hanyu Pinyin	Population (2020)[3]	Area (km2)	Density (/km2)
Yunhe District	运河区	Yùnhé Qū	511,086	138	1,957
Xinhua District	新华区	Xīnhuá Qū	284,746	89	2,472
Botou City	泊头市	Bótóu Shì	573,842	977	563
Renqiu City	任丘市	Rénqiū Shì	816,401	1,023	753
Huanghua City	黄骅市	Huánghuá Shì	652,401	1,545	317
Hejian City	河间市	Héjiān Shì	795,198	1,333	578
Cang County	沧县	Cāng Xiàn	626,011	1,527	432
Qing County	青县	Qīng Xiàn	420,878	968	403
Dongguang County	东光县	Dōngguāng Xiàn	340,288	710	493
Haixing County	海兴县	Hǎixīng Xiàn	189,273	836	263
Yanshan County	盐山县	Yánshān Xiàn	411,356	795	503
Suning County	肃宁县	Sùníng Xiàn	341,919	497	664
Nanpi County	南皮县	Nánpí Xiàn	347,473	794	441
Wuqiao County	吴桥县	Wúqiáo Xiàn	217,986	603	464
Xian County	献县	Xìàn Xiàn	568,418	1,191	479
Mengcun Hui Autonomous County	孟村回族自治县	Mèngcūn Huízú Zìzhìxiàn	203,507	393	458

Cangzhou's urban center is a heavily industrial city, but the city's administrative territory also includes strongly agricultural areas, and is well known in China for its Chinese jujubes (Chinese dates), apples and pear (widely known under the export name of Tianjin Ya Pear). The North China Oil Field is within Cangzhou City's jurisdiction. Cangzhou also encompasses a large fishing port and the coal-exporting Huanghua Harbour. Notable International Companies located in Cangzhou Hyundai (Japan), Hage Fittings und Flanschen GmbH (Germany) (Hage Fluid Control Technology (Hebei) Co., Ltd Joint Venture).

Cangzhou is located in eastern Hebei, immediately to the south of Tianjin, near the coast of the Bohai Sea of the Pacific Ocean. Bordering prefecture-level cities are Hengshui to the southwest, Baoding to the west, and Langfang to the north. It lies on the Beijing–Shanghai Railway.

The G1811 Huanghua–Shijiazhuang Expressway connects Cangzhou to Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital, and is linked to Beijing via both the G2 Beijing–Shanghai Expressway and G3 Beijing–Taipei Expressway, which are concurrent within the province, and to Shanghai via G2. Cangzhou's Huanghua Harbour is the end of a main Chinese coal shipping railway, the Shuohuang Railway. Other major highways serving Cangzhou's urban area are China National Highway 104 and 307.

Major airports located closest to Cangzhou include Beijing Capital Airport and Tianjin Airport.

The Grand Canal passes directly through Cangzhou, and a district of Cangzhou (Yunhe District) is named after it.

Cangzhou has a four-season, monsoon-influenced humid continental climate/semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk/Dwa), with cold, dry winters, and hot, humid summers. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −3.2 °C (26.2 °F) in January to 27.2 °C (81.0 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 13.25 °C (55.8 °F). A majority of the annual precipitation of 541 mm (21.3 in) occurs in July and August alone. With possible monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 49% in July to 65% in October, the city receives 2,663 hours of bright sunshine annually.

The city has historically been known in China for its wushu (Chinese martial arts) and acrobatics (specifically, the Wu Qiao school). Cangzhou is also famed for its historic thousand-year-old 40-ton sculpture, the Iron Lion of Cangzhou. The sculpture is reportedly the largest cast-iron sculpture in the world, cast in 953 in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The famed lion has even given its name to a locally brewed beer (iron lion beer, 铁狮啤酒) and is a symbol of the city.^[7]

Cangzhou is home to a traditional Chinese form of musical performing arts, Kuaiban Dagu.

The city hosts seven mosques for Muslim adherents (mostly Hui).^[8] One of them, the West Mosque, has collected at its museum one of China's best collections of Islamic manuscripts and artefacts.^[9]

Cangzhou, though predominated by the Han Chinese majority, is home to a sizable population of the Muslim Hui minority. Intermarriage occasionally occurs between the majority Han and the Hui, but stereotypes of Hui still exist among Cangzhou's Han residents, and some tensions remain. Migration to Hebei province and Cangzhou by Xinjiang Muslim minorities (generally ethnic Uighurs) is increasing.^{[citation needed]}

The dominant first language of Cangzhou's population is a variety of the northeastern Mandarin dialect continuum termed Cangzhou,^[10] which is a variety of Ji Lu Mandarin. There are some similarities with the Tianjin variety and the Baoding variety of Mandarin, but both are considered distinct groups from that of Cangzhou [1]. Dialects of the Cangzhou area vary between localities and counties, though are generally intelligible among each other.

The city, like all other Chinese administrative divisions, has a party committee, the People's government, the People's Congress, and the Political consultative conference.

Cangzhou is home to the Cangzhou Airbase of the People's Liberation Army Air Force

Shijiazhuang Ever Bright moved to Cangzhou and changed their name to Cangzhou Mighty Lions, they play at the Cangzhou Stadium.

Cangzhou Normal University (沧州师范学院): now it has 871 teacher staff, including 607 full-time teachers, 233 people with the title of deputy senior or above, and 405 people with master's and doctor's degrees. The school motto is "knowing, morality, knowledge and behaviour, innovation" (明德、博学、知行、日新).

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There is one international school in Cangzhou, the Cangzhou Zhenhua Korean International School (沧州振华韩国国际学校).^[11]

• Sun Yue (1985), fifth Chinese national to play in the NBA
• Wang Zi-Ping (1881–1973), Chinese martial arts grandmaster
• Jia Qinglin (1940), former member of Politburo Standing Committee and Chairman of CPPCC
• Zhang Lichang (1939–2008), former member of Politburo and Party Secretary of Tianjin.

• DuBois, Thomas. The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005.

• Article about the Cangzhou Lion (in Chinese)
• "Chinese 'serial killer' arrested". BBC World Service. 15 November 2003. (Incident in Cangzhou)
• https://www.hyundai.news/eu/articles/press-releases/hyundai-motor-company-opens-new-plant-in-cangzhou-china.html
• https://www.hagetek.de/