The is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Hebei.
A series of smaller earthquakes struck the city in the following decade.
The mine in , with a history of over 100 years, is one of China's first modern mines, and remains a major mine with an annual production of over 20 million metric tonnes.
Most of central and southern Hebei lies within the.
Local worship of deities in the region began to organise into "" as a reaction to Catholicism in the.
Today, the area houses a memorial site.
Ethnic groups in Hebei, 2000 census Population Percentage 63,781,603 95.
The next dynasty, the under Shi Jingtang, posthumously known as Emperor , ceded much of modern-day northern Hebei to the in the north; this territory, called the of Yanyun, became a major weakness in the Chinese defense against the Khitans for the next century, since it lay within the.