Hebei

Proper noun

Hebei

1. A province in northern China. Capital: Shijiazhuang.
   • 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...2008 September 30, “27 suspects arrested in tainted milk scandal”, in France 24, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2023, China
   • 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...
   • 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.2018 January 17, David Stanway, “Cities in China's Hebei province still top list of smoggiest places”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2019...
2. A district of Tianjin, China.
   • The Dabei (Mahakaruna) Temple on Tianwei Road in the Hebei District is the only Buddhist temple of good size in Tianjin.2007, Zheng Lixin [郑立新], “Major Buddhist Temples”, in Buddhism: Rituals and Monastic Life [中国佛教], 1st edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 226
   • 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 March, “Tianjin”, in Travel in China: A Guidebook for Travelers to China [中国旅游指南], Beijing: China Travel & Tourism Press [中国旅游出版社], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80, column 2