Located in the northeast of Hebei Province, 230 kilometers from Beijing. Historically, it was the capital of the Qing Dynasty in its heyday, and in the Republic of China and the early liberation period it was the capital of the former Jehol province, and now it is a provincial municipality in Hebei province, with eight counties and three districts under its jurisdiction: Chengde County, Lunhua County, Luanping County, Xinglong County, Pingquan County, Kuancheng Manzu Autonomous County, Fengning Manzu Autonomous County, Weichang Manzu Autonomous County of Mengguzu, and Shuangqiao District, Shuangluan District, and Yingtaiyingzi Mining District. The city's total population of more than 3.4 million, of which 25 Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, Korean and other ethnic minorities, the population of 1.3 million; a total area of 39,548 square kilometers, of which the urban area of 18.6 square kilometers, is the north of Yan area political, economic and cultural center. The north is the seven old map mountain range, there are vast sea of forests, vast grasslands; the central part of the Yanshan Mountain Range, for the low hills; the south is the continuation of the eastern section of the Yanshan Mountain Range, the peaks and valleys deep. Rivers are Chaohe, Luanhe, Liuhe, Laoniuhe and so on. The beautiful and sweet water of Chaohe River and Luanhe River flows continuously to Beijing and Tianjin. Chengde City is 200-1200 meters above sea level, with an average elevation of 350 meters and the highest peak of Wuling Mountain at 2118 meters. Mountains around the city, is the Danxia landform, strange peaks and rocks, natural and heavenly, thousands of forms, the formation of a unique chime hammer peaks, Luohan Mountain, Tianqiao Mountain, Double Pagoda Mountain and other ten landscapes.

Chengde is known as the "Pearl of the Purple Seaside", listed as one of the first batch of national historical and cultural cities, China's top ten scenic spots, tourist attractions, the top forty, the national key scenic spots, is the national open city of category A. In 1994, the summer resort and surrounding temples in Chengde were approved by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, thus making Chengde a step forward. World Cultural Heritage, thus making Chengde step into the ranks of the world's cultural cities.　

Chengde is adjacent to Beijing and Tianjin, Zhangjiakou in the west, Liaoning in the east, Inner Mongolia in the north, Qinhuangdao and Tangshan in the south, and is an important regional city in the hinterland of the Yanshan Mountains and on the shore of the Bohai Sea. Chengde, located in the hinterland of the Yanshan Mountains, 40o11'-42o40' north latitude, 115o54'-119o15' east longitude. Belongs to the transition zone from sub-temperate to sub-frigid, semi-humid and semi-arid, continental monsoon type climate, four distinct seasons, abundant light, large temperature difference between day and night. The average annual temperature is 8.9oC, and the average annual frost-free period is 160 days. Summer is warm and cool, winter is less cold, and rainfall is moderate. The main agricultural products are rice, corn, apples and red fruits; industrial products are mainly metallurgy, textile, machinery and chemical industry. Steel, pipes, mining machinery, electronic track balance, chain conveyor, crankshaft connecting rod, pipe pliers, automobile instrumentation, silk and linen fabrics, glassware, proprietary Chinese medicines, almond milk and so on sell well in domestic and foreign markets. Railroads are Jingcheng, Shicheng, Jingdan, Jincheng, Cheng Ye, Cheng Long, Cheng Xing and other 7 pairs of trains directly to Beijing, Shijiazhuang, Dandong, Jinzhou, etc.; highways are well-connected, Beijing and Tianjin region to Inner Mongolia and the northeast of the fortress. The city has well-developed telecommunication, sufficient power supply and water supply, convenient transportation, and great potential for land preparation. The city government implements the guideline of vigorously developing industrial production with the advantage of tourism and pursues the policy of preferential foreign investment. Since 1984, many industrial and commercial enterprises from Japan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Europe and other regions have come here to compete in the market.　

Chengde, once known as Jehol, was first called Jehol Shangying. Qianlong "Hot River Examination of the source" recorded: "Hot River, now known as the Wulie water, water sources have three ......, three sources of both convergence, and the southwest flow along the northeast of the mountain village, the calendar Hammer Peak, the mountain village within the hot springs outflow remittance, and so began the name of the Hot River." Hot River, that is, Wulie water, north from the Polo River Tun (now Longhua County) south flow folded and east, by the hot river on the camp, bi Ling, Dashi Temple, in the hot river under the camp into the Luan River. Summer Resort in the water in the upper camp on the southeast and Wulei water convergence. From here to the lower camp of the river because of hot springs into the river, it is called "hot river". Hot River on the camp that is now the city center area of the Fire God Temple area; under the camp that is now the Dashimiao Township Zhuangtou Yingzi Village, 25 miles apart.　

Chengde has a long history, has a rich multi-ethnic historical and cultural connotations, especially the Qing Dynasty Kangxi and Qianlong period of the construction of the summer resort and outside the eight temples, as a multi-ethnic national unity and unity of the historical testimony to the North's majestic scenery with the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan known in the world. According to the excavated artifacts, there were human activities in the area of Chengde as early as during the Longshan Culture in the Central Plains. During the Warring States period, the area belonged to the territory of Yan. During the period from Qin and Han to Tang and Song dynasties, ethnic minorities such as Xiongnu, Xianbei, Kumochi, Qidan, and Jurchen had been roaming here successively. Ouyang Xiu of the Northern Song Dynasty wrote poems such as "Children can walk on horses, and women bend their bows" and "The enclosure is full of flies, and the water springs are empty when the tents are moved". Yuan and Ming period belongs to the Beiping (now Beijing) Province, for the Karakin, Wengniut, Chahar and other Mongolian nomadic land. Until the early years of the Qing dynasty, the hot river on the camp has never set up any central or local management institutions, is a "name not in charge of the job side" of the village. Kangxi forty-two years (1703), the Qing court in the construction of the Palace, the population grows with each passing day. Kangxi forty-seven years (1708) Rehe Palace began to use, marking the Rehe entered a period of development. To the Kangxi fifty years (1711) is already "physiological agriculture and mulberry business, gather people to ten thousand families" of the big village and town. Since then, in order to adapt to the emperor every year to Chengde summer needs, the Mongolian princes, court ministers and some of the words of the scribes are scrambling to build in Chengde House Qiu House, Chengde, with the high-speed development of industry and commerce, the city pedestrians miscellaneous pedestrian pedal, horse and cart hustle and bustle, taverns and tea stores pectinally ...... Yongzheng first year (1723) set up the hot river hall, the second year set up the Jehol governor, the East Mongolia civil affairs. Yongzheng eleven years (1733), Yinzhen to take the sense of bearing the ancestor's deze, strike Hot River Hall set Chengde Direct State, this is the "Chengde" name of the beginning of the source. Qianlong six years, Hongli began to fortunately summer resort, Chengde began to enter a period of prosperity. Forty-three years of Qianlong (1778), Hongli in a Yu decree, said: "hot river place I every year, autumn mass first stationed in bi bi, decades in the household increasing, people's livelihood affluent, and agriculture and mulberry reproduction, the market place Yin wen ...... "" imperial ancestors Poetry cloud gathering people to ten thousand families, today is more than ten thousand, just like a big cognizance carry on". "hot river since the emperor built a mountain village, so far, more than 60 years, the household day ZiZhi, cultivation and open up, just like a metropolis", is the year rise for Chengde Province. Jiaqing fifteen years (18l0 years) set up the Jehol Department. Daoguang seven years (1827) later, Jehol civil and military officials are under the jurisdiction of the Department of all, the official position and the court sent the governor, governor with. After the 1911 revolution, abolished the government establishment, the republic of three years (1914) set up the hot river special district, the republic of seventeen years (1929) rebuilt the hot river province, chengde for the hot river province capital. 1933 in March, chengde fell, for the Japanese occupation zone. In August of 1933, the Japanese surrendered, Chengde set up the Eighth Route Army office, later changed to the hot west office, hot west work committee. in September to build the people's government of the city of Chengde, formally established in November. in August 1946, the Kuomintang army occupied Chengde. After the liberation, in 1948, the city government of Chengde City was established, subordinate to the Jehol province. 1955, the Jehol province was abolished, and Chengde City was transferred to Hebei province as a provincial municipality. 1958, Chengde was reorganized under the leadership of the Chengde Commissioner's Office. 1960, the Chengde Commissioner's Office was abolished, and the city was reorganized as a provincial municipality. 1961, the Chengde Commissioner's Office was reorganized, and the city was reorganized as a local municipality. 1982, the local municipality was divided into two departments, and the city was reorganized as a provincial municipality again until 1993. In 1982, the city was reorganized into a provincial municipality, and in 1993, the city of Chengde was merged with the city of Chengde.　

Chengde tourism resources are unique, unique style. There are many "the world's largest": the world's largest royal garden - summer resort; the world's largest group of royal temples - outside the eight temples; the world's largest wooden Buddha - thousands of hands and thousands of eyes Guanyin; the world's shortest river - the Jehol River; the essence of the Great Wall of China - the Great Wall of Jinshanling; called the world's best stone columns - Chime Peak; The world's first strange pine - Nine Dragons Pine ...... Royal style in the city and natural paradise in the countryside. "Tour Chengde, the emperor's choice", this is Chengde's tourism slogan.　

Summer Resort is China's largest royal garden, covering an area of 5.64 million square meters, the wall surrounded by 10 kilometers long, divided into two parts of the Palace District and Court Scenic Area, the West Mountain East Lake, rolling hills, pines and cypresses, lush water and grass, the building is simple and elegant, Chau Island staggered, plains and wilderness, warblers and swallows, elk flocks, the building pavilions and pavilions chequered, dikes and bridges intertwined with the order of the wigwam stacked stones dotted between them. Kangxi Qianlong to four words, three words each titled "thirty-six scenes," the finishing touch. Set of North and South of the essence of the art of garden architecture, both North and South Xiu Xiong rhyme beauty, garden in the garden, a collection of scenic beauty, was known as the Kangxi "own mountains and rivers of the North Pole, the natural scenery than the West Lake".　

Golden temple group, integration of Manchu, Han, Mongolia, Tibet, Vi multi-ethnic Buddhist architectural art of the long, magnificent, very different styles, is to resist foreign insults, symbols of national unity, seat temple, the Department of the monument, such as the stars all over the periphery of the villa, coupled with Chengde's unique "Danxia geomorphology", nature's hundreds of millions of years! Carved, ghostly craftsmanship, the formation of a thousand wonders, far from the near view, the form of peculiar and realistic, "between the villa at hand, straight for the 10,000 miles view".　Summer Resort and the surrounding temple group as the center of the landscape, radiation periphery. In the north, there is the Chengde Royal Hunting Park Mulanbaichang National Forest Park, summer can enjoy the vast sea of forests and prairies, winter can be full of thousands of miles of ice and snow in the northern scenery; south of the former Royal Court, today's Wuling Mountain Nature Reserve; west of the first grassland resort and Baiyun Cave in the north of Beijing; east of the Chaoyang Cave, the Royal Spring Palace and the Liaohe River source of the resort area, the Panjiakou Reservoir World Wonders Underwater Great Wall Tourist Area; between the Beijing-Chengdu Highway and the majestic Jinshanling Great Wall among the towering mountains. The city's landscape is densely packed, forming the famous golden tourism belt in the north of Beijing.