Time Zone |
Asia/Shanghai |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+8 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
Time Zone |
Asia/Shanghai |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+8 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
Huozhou City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Shanxi Province, China, administered by Linfen City, located in the south-central part of Shanxi Province, at the northern end of Linfen Basin. It has a total area of about 765 square kilometers and a population of about 300,000 people. As an important energy base in Shanxi, Huozhou is famous for its coal resources, and its industry is based on coal mining and power production.
Huozhou has a long history and is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization. There is a national key cultural relics protection unit Huozhou Department, which is regarded as a model of ancient Chinese state capital architecture. The Ming Dynasty Drum Tower in the city is a landmark building, and there are other cultural heritages such as the Thousand Buddha Cliffs stone carvings and the Nuwa Huang Temple. The local folk culture is rich, Huozhou rice-planting songs and face-molding techniques are listed as intangible cultural heritage.
Huozhou has a temperate continental climate with four distinct seasons. The transportation is convenient, with the South Tongpu Railway and Danyun Expressway passing through the city. In recent years, while maintaining the advantages of the energy industry, it has been actively developing the culture and tourism industry and promoting economic diversification, making it an important county economic unit in southern Jinan.
Baoding, a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province, is located in the northern part of the North China Plain, constituting a golden triangle with Beijing and Tianjin, and is known as the "Gateway to the Gorge" and the "Southern Gate of the Capital". The city has a long history, since the Neolithic era, there will be the first people to flourish, the Warring States period for the junction of Yan and Zhao, the Yuan Dynasty, set up Baoding Road, to "defend the metropolis, stabilize the world," the Ming and Qing Dynasty for the capital of the Zhili province, is one of the political and cultural centers of northern China's modern times. There are many scenic spots and monuments in Baoding, including the Governor's Office of Zhili, one of China's top ten museums, the national 5A scenic spot Baiyangdian, and the thousand-year-old temple Mancheng Han Tomb, etc. Baoding has a rich cultural heritage. Cultural heritage, Baoding Military Academy is known as "China's modern military cradle", training a large number of military personnel; food culture is unique, Baoding dishes, locust Mao pickles, white Yunzhang buns and other famous. Nowadays, Baoding, as a regional center city in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei world-class urban agglomeration, is relying on the advantages of its location to vigorously develop new energy, automobile manufacturing and other industries, and is a livable city with both historical heritage and modern vitality.