1August, 949, Cang county area was established, and Cang city was renamed Cang town, which is a county-level town. 1953, Cang Town was changed to a county-administered town. 1June, 958 and1February, Cangxian District was merged into Tianjin District and Tianjin City successively. 196 1 June 1 day, restore Cangzhou area and Cangzhou city. 1983 1 1 month Cangzhou was promoted to a provincial city. 1in July, 993, Cangzhou and the city merged to form a new Cangzhou city.
Cangzhou is located in the southeast of Hebei Province, bordering the Bohai Sea in the east, Beijing and Tianjin in the north and Shandong in the south. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal runs through the urban area, so it is named after the Bohai Sea in the east, which means the state of the sea.
Cangzhou is located in the east of Jizhong Plain, with low terrain and little fluctuation, with the highest elevation of17m and the lowest elevation of 2m. The terrain inclines from southwest to northeast, and its west is a part of the piedmont alluvial fan margin of Taihang Mountain, its middle is a vast plain formed by the alluvial of the Yellow River, Zhanghe River, Hutuo River and Tanghe River, and its east is a coastal marine lacustrine plain formed by tidal accumulation in Bohai Sea.
Influenced by latitude and topography, Cangzhou has an obvious warm temperate continental monsoon climate. The general situation of climate is: four distinct seasons, moderate temperature, abundant sunshine, rain and heat in the same season, concentrated precipitation, frequent occurrence of disastrous weather, spring drought, summer waterlogging, cool autumn and dry winter. It is dry and windy in spring, hot and rainy in summer, cool and sunny in autumn and cold and dry in winter. The annual average temperature is 12.5℃, and the annual average precipitation is 58 1 mm. The annual accumulated temperature is 4785℃, and the frost-free period is 18 1 day. The seasonal distribution of precipitation and temperature and the difference between day and night of temperature are obvious.