Hengshui () is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China, bordering

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

to the southeast. At the 2010 census its population was 4,340,373 inhabitants whom 522,147 lived in the built-up (''or metro'') area made of Taocheng urban district. It is on the Beijing–Kowloon railway.

Administrative divisions

Education

Hengshui High School and Hengshui University are located in Hengshui.

Sights

The Harrison International Peace Hospital is located in Hengshui. This comprehensive teaching and research hospital was named after Dr.

Tillson Harrison Tillson Lever Harrison (January 7, 1881 – January 10, 1947) was a Canadian physician, army officer and adventurer. Moving to New York and enlisting in the United States Army at an early age, he later returned to Canada to attend the University o ...

, a martyr to the Chinese revolution. Dr. Harrison, a Canadian, died in 1947 while transporting medical equipment and supplies. Some of this equipment is on display in an exhibition room in the hospital. The hospital uses both traditional Chinese medicine and modern western diagnostic and therapeutic technology. The city is renowned as the centre for inside painting, mainly of small snuff bottles. Zhang Rucai was born in Hebei Province and since 1972, he started to learn the art of inside painting. In April 1996, he was conferred the title Master of Chinese Folk Arts & Crafts by UNESCO. The city has a fascinating museum and exhibition of the art of the inside painter - many complex paintings done on the inside of small snuff bottles as well as special larger pieces of glassware. There is a Buddhist Temple on the outskirts of the city which is well worth a visit, as is the bridge in the old part of the city - one of the few remnants of the old town. File:Hengshui_Old_Town_Bridge.JPG, Hengshui Old Town Bridge File:Hengshui Buddhist Temple1.jpg, Hengshui Buddhist Temple

Geography and Climate

Air pollution

According to a survey made by "Global voices China" in February 2013, 7 cities in Hebei including Xingtai,

Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang (; ; Mandarin: ), formerly known as Shimen and romanized as Shihkiachwang, is the capital and most populous city of China’s North China's Hebei Province. Administratively a prefecture-level city, it is about southwest of Beijin ...

, Baoding,

Handan Handan is a prefecture-level city located in the southwest of Hebei province, China. The southernmost prefecture-level city of the province, it borders Xingtai on the north, and the provinces of Shanxi on the west, Henan on the south and Shando ...

, Langfang, Hengshui and Tangshan, are among China's 10 most polluted cities.

Religion

Hengshui is the seat of the Catholic

Diocese of Hengshui The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jingxian/Kinghsien ( la, Chimscien(sis), ) is a diocese located in Jingxian (Hengshui) in the Ecclesiastical province of Beijing in China. History * April 24, 1939: Established as the Apostolic Prefecture of Jingxi ...

References

{{Authority control Cities in Hebei Prefecture-level divisions of Hebei