Shijiazhuang City is the provincial capital of Hebei, the political, economic, sci-tech, financial, cultural and information center of the whole province and one of the cities approved by the State Council for implementing coastal and financial opening up policies. The city is in the southwest of Beijing, the capital city of China, and 283 kilometers from Beijing. Up to the end of 2017, Shijiazhuang City covers a total area of 13,504 square kilometers (not including 960 square kilometers of Xinji, a city under direct administration of Hebei Province) and has a total permanent resident population of 10,879,900, with the urbanization rate of 61.64% for the permanent population and 45.8% for the registered population.