Administrative divisions
Cangzhou City comprises
2 for Cangzhou's city proper:
*Yunhe District
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4 county-level cities that have relatively large urban areas:
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*Renqiu
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*Hejian
10 counties :
*Cang County , which surrounds Cangzhou's urban center/city proper
*Qing County
*Xian County
*Dongguang County
*Haixing County
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*Suning County
*Nanpi County
*Wuqiao County
*Mengcun Hui Autonomous County
Economics
Cangzhou's urban center is a heavily city but the city's administrative territory also includes strongly agricultural areas, and is renowned in China for its fruits and . The North China Oil Field is within Cangzhou City's jurisdiction. Cangzhou also encompasses a large fishing port and the modern, coal-exporting Huanghua Harbour.
Geography and transportation
Cangzhou is located to the south of Beijing, near the coast of the Bohai Sea of the Pacific Ocean. It lies on the railway line and the notional Jinghu Axis, a and transportation corridor between Beijing and Shanghai to the south.
The Shicang Expressway connects Cangzhou to Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei province, and from thence links by road to the Jingshi Expressway leading to Beijing, part of the Jingzhu Expressway connecting all the way to southern China, Hong Kong, and Macau. Cangzhou's Huanghua Harbour is the end of a main Chinese coal shipping railway, the Shuohuang Line.
Major airports located closest to Cangzhou include Beijing Capital Airport and .
Climate
Cangzhou's climate is mild to warm in the summer to cold in the winter, as in most of Hebei and north China. In winter months, snowfall is common.
History
Cangzhou is reported to have been founded in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period .
Culture
The city has historically been known in China for its –or martial arts–and acrobatics . Cangzhou is also famed for its historic thousand-year-old 40-ton sculpture, the Iron Lion of Cangzhou. The sculpture is reportedly the largest cast-iron sculpture in the world, cast in 953 in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The famed lion has even given its name to a locally-brewed beer and is a symbol of the city.
Cangzhou is home to a traditional Chinese form of musical performing arts, Kuaiban Dagu.
The city's residents have seven mosques. One of them, the West Mosque, has collected at its museum one of Chinas's best collections of Islamic manuscripts and artefacts.
Demographics and society
Cangzhou, though predominated by the Han Chinese majority, is home to a sizable population of the Muslim Hui . Intermarriage occasionally occurs between the majority Han and the Hui, but stereotypes of Hui still exist among Cangzhou's Han residents, and some tensions remain. Migration to Hebei province and Cangzhou by Xinjiang Muslim minorities is increasing.
Language
The dominant of Cangzhou's population is a variety of the northeastern dialect continuum , with some similarities with the Tianjin dialect of Mandarin. Cangzhou-area topolects are partially mutually intelligible with standard Mandarin. Dialects vary between localities, including among the many rural and urbanized areas, though are generally among each other.
Municipal government
The city, like all other Chinese administrative divisions, has a party committee, the People's government, the People's Congress, and the Political consultative conference.
Military
Cangzhou is home to Cangzhou Airbase of the
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