Shijiazhuang, China
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being, it gradually grew in size to become a small city. Five years later the building of a second railroad between Zhengding and Taiyuan accelerated the expansion of Shijiazhuang. In 1926 it finally reached the size of a major city and in 1947 its name was changed to Shimen.

Since the end of the 1940s Shijiazhuang developed so quickly that it not only became the present political, economic and cultural center of the Hebei province, but is now also one of the most important industrial metropolises in the north of China.