Shahe () is a

county-level city A county-level city () is a County-level divisions of China, county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local or ...

in the

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Xingtai Xingtai ( zh, s= , t=邢臺, p=Xíngtái , w=Hsing2-tʻai2), formerly known as Xingzhou and Shunde, is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It has a total area of and administers 4 districts, 2 coun ...

, in the southern part of

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

province, China. Shahe has been called China's "glass capital." Its

glass Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline solid, non-crystalline) solid. Because it is often transparency and translucency, transparent and chemically inert, glass has found widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in window pane ...

factories manufacture about ten percent of the world supply of

flat glass Plate glass, flat glass or sheet glass is a type of glass, initially produced in plane form, commonly used for windows, glass doors, transparent walls, and windscreens. For modern architectural and automotive applications, the flat glass is s ...

. About 50,000 of Shahe's 480,000 residents work in the glass industry.

Smog Smog, or smoke fog, is a type of intense air pollution. The word "smog" was coined in the early 20th century, and is a portmanteau of the words ''smoke'' and ''fog'' to refer to smoky fog due to its opacity, and odour. The word was then inte ...

in Shahe has become a serious problem, with some factories preferring to pay fines rather than comply with

air pollution Air pollution is the presence of substances in the Atmosphere of Earth, air that are harmful to humans, other living beings or the environment. Pollutants can be Gas, gases like Ground-level ozone, ozone or nitrogen oxides or small particles li ...

enforcement requirements.

Administrative divisions

Subdistricts:邢台市-行政区划网
/ref> * Dalian Subdistrict (), Qiaodong Subdistrict (), Qiaoxi Subdistrict (), Zanshan Subdistrict (), Zhouzhuang Subdistrict () Towns: * Shahecheng (), Xincheng (), Baita (), Shiliting (), Qicun (綦村镇 Townships: * Liucun Township (), Cejing Township (), Liushigang Township (), Chaiguan Township (), Chanfang Township ()

Climate

References

County-level cities in Hebei Glass industry Xingtai {{Xingtai-geo-stub