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Handan, referred to as "Han" for short, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Hebei Province, a second-class big city, and a central city in southern Hebei Province approved by the State Council. By the end of 2022, the city had jurisdiction over six districts, 1/county,1county-level city, with a total area of 12066 square kilometers and a permanent population of 928 1 10,000.
Handan City is located at the southern tip of Hebei Province, bordering Taihang Mountain in the west, North China Plain in the east and Shanxi and Lu Yu provinces in the east. It is the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the regional central city of the Central Plains Economic Zone, and it is also an old industrial base under key state construction.
Handan is an important node connecting east and west and connecting north and south. Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railway run through the north and south, Han-Chang Railway and Han Ji Railway run through the east and west, and Huang Han Railway runs through the port. Beijing-Shenzhen Expressway, Daguang Expressway and Taihang Mountain Expressway run through the north and south, while Qinglan Expressway and Handan Expressway run through the east and west.
Handan has a warm temperate continental monsoon climate with four distinct seasons. It is windy and dry in spring, hot and rainy in summer, mild and cool in autumn, cold and dry in winter, with an annual average temperature of 13.5℃ and an average temperature of -2.3℃ in the coldest month (1 month).
The extreme minimum temperature is-19℃, the average temperature in the hottest month (July) is 26.9℃, and the extreme maximum temperature is 42.5℃. The frost-free period is 200 days and the annual sunshine is 2557 hours.
Handan is rich in various mineral resources, and is a famous coal and high-quality iron ore producing area in China. It is known as the modern "steel city" and "coal capital", and has rich "two evils"-coal and iron resources, with coal and iron ore reserves reaching 4 billion tons and 480 million tons respectively.
Among them, coal reserves are abundant, coal types are complete and coal quality is good; Iron ore has high grade, less harmful impurities and good washability. In addition, there are more than 40 kinds of non-metallic mineral resources, such as bauxite, refractory soil, pyrite, potassium-bearing sand shale, charcoal stone and so on. There are 200 different mines.