Baoding, located in the north of North China Plain, in the middle of Hebei Province, forms a golden triangle with Beijing and Tianjin. Baoding has been the thoroughfare of "three passes in the north, nine provinces in the south, four prefectures and the highest in the state" since ancient times. Baoding was once the capital of Zhili, the resident of Zhili Governor, and the earliest capital of Hebei Province. From 1669 to 1968, Baoding is the political, economic and cultural center of Hebei and one of the central cities of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.

Baoding is an open city, the first innovation-driven development demonstration city in China, a low-carbon pilot city of the World Wide Fund for Nature, an excellent tourist city of China, a national double-support model city, a hometown of opera, a hometown of swimming, a national key table tennis city, and the second batch of pilot cities for transferring to metropolises. It is also called "City of Longevity" and "City of Champions".

Socio-economic:

In 2020, the GDP of Baoding will reach 335.33 billion yuan (excluding xiong'an new area and Dingzhou), an increase of 3.9% over the previous year. Among them, the added value of the primary industry was 3.910.6 billion yuan, an increase of 3.5%; The added value of the secondary industry was1109.7 billion yuan, an increase of 4.6%; The added value of tertiary industry was1852 billion yuan, up by 3.4%. The tertiary industry structure is11.7: 33.1:55.2.

In 2020, the general public budget revenue of Baoding was 28.07 billion yuan, up by 3.0% over the previous year, of which the tax revenue was 654.38+0.698 billion yuan, down by 4.8%. The general public budget expenditure was 80,265.438 billion yuan, an increase of 65.438+0.9%.