Shijiazhuang is the capital of Hebei province, and this alone has become a cold knowledge for many people in China. Most people, including Hebei people, may not care.
Shijiazhuang is the youngest provincial administrative center in other provinces and regions except Haikou after the establishment of Hainan Province 1988. Because of its young qualifications, Shijiazhuang is often compared with Baoding, the old provincial capital, and is always criticized as a cultural desert, lacking in historical details. I don't know when it got the nickname "International Village". The specific source and time point can't be verified, but we can roughly understand two meanings: First, the humorous description based on the name itself: "Village" is generally the name of a country, and Shijiazhuang, as a big city, sounds very different. Middle school geography teachers often say that this is "the best village in the world".
The "international village" of network celebrities is another expression of "the best village in the world".
2. Non-malicious ridicule of Shijiazhuang by locals or foreigners: Shijiazhuang, as the capital of the eastern coastal provinces, once had a low sense of existence, was overwhelmed by Tangshan in terms of economic aggregate, and was popular in Baoding in history and culture, so it was inevitably regarded as a provincial capital that was not worthy of the name. Local people with simple folk customs and open minds call themselves "international Zhuang" and "Li Zhuang people", which is quite optimistic.