Langfang

Langfang is a prefecture-level town of Hebei Province, which changed into referred to as Tianjin Prefecture until 1973. It turned into renamed Langfang Prefecture after Tianjin became a municipality and in the end upgraded right into a prefecture-degree city in 1988. Langfang is placed about halfway between Beijing and Tianjin. At the 2010 census, the populace of Langfang turned into four,358,839, of whom 868,066 lived in the constructed-up or metro vicinity product of Guangyang and Anci districts; its total area is round 6,417.28 km2.

Langfang borders Baoding to the southwest, Cangzhou to the south both prefecture-level towns of Hebei, Beijing to the north and Tianjin to the east. Sanhe City and Dachang Hui County are now conurbated with Beijing, so they form a part of the identical built-up area. Langfang is the smallest prefecture-degree town of Hebei Province via land vicinity. Langfang's economy emphasizes computer systems and technology and manufacturing. To that impact Langfang is home to an export processing sector, an area for factories, and the Oriental University City, a four-billion yuan investment that commenced production in 1999, in which some 30 universities sign up approximately 50,000 students.