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Extract from the Shijiazhuang Travel Guides:
Five hours by train southwest from Beijing, but at least five years behind in progress, the capital of Hebei,
SHIJIAZHUANG
, is a major rail junction that you may find yourself passing through if you're heading south to the Yellow River. At the beginning of the century Shijiazhuang was hardly more than a village, but the building of the rail line made it an important junction town, and by the 1920s it had a population of ten thousand. Having industrialized rapidly, it's now an unglamorous, sprawling place that seems uncomfortable about its provincialism. A distinctive feature of its rather grey streets are large billboards with politica...
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