Chapter 7.3: Hebei Province

Overview

Hebei Province is situated in the northern part of the North China Plain, to the west of the Bohai Sea. It borders on Liaoning Province in the north-east and on Inner Mongolia in the north and north-west. Mountains account for 35 per cent of the total area, highlands north of the Great Wall for 12 per cent, and plains, hills and basins 50 per cent, and the coastline extends for about 500 kilometres. It has a total area of 187,700 square kilometres and has a population of 66.99 million. The provincial capital is Shijiazhuang. Major economic indicators are shown in Table 7.3.1.

Table 7.3.1: Major economic indicators, Hebei Province

Item	2000	2001
Population (millions)	66.658	66.991
Gross domestic product (billion RMB)	508.896	557.8
GDP per capita (thousand RMB)	7.663
Disposable income per capita (thousand RMB)
Urban residents	5.662	2.479
Rural residents	5.984	2.603
Savings (billion RMB) [*]	552.43	612.45
Investment in fixed assets (billion RMB)
181.679 194.2
Value-added of primary industry (billion RMB)	82.455	91.4
Value-added of secondary industry (billion RMB)	255.996	274.4
Value-added of tertiary industry (billion RMB)	170.445	191.93
Total retail sales of consumer goods (billion RMB)	161.4	177.8
Source: China Statistical Yearbook 2001 and State Statistical Bureau
[*] Both institutional and private savings