Changli () is a county of northeastern

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and ...

province, China, with some

Bohai Sea The Bohai Sea () is a marginal sea approximately in area on the east coast of Mainland China. It is the northwestern and innermost extension of the Yellow Sea, to which it connects to the east via the Bohai Strait. It has a mean depth of ...

coast. It is under the administration of the

Qinhuangdao Qinhuangdao (; ) is a port city on the coast of China in northern Hebei. It is administratively a prefecture-level city, about east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea. Its population during the 2020 national ...

City, and borders Funing County and

Luan County Luanzhou (), formerly Luan County (), is a county-level city in the east of Hebei province, China. It is under the administration of the Tangshan city. Administrative divisions Subdistricts: * Luanhe Subdistrict (), Gucheng Subdistrict (), Luan ...

. Both Beijing–Harbin Railway and

China National Highway 205 China National Highway 205 (G205) runs from Shanhaiguan, Hebei Province to Shenzhen, Guangdong. It is 3,160 kilometres in length and runs south from Shanhaiguan towards Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, and ends in Gua ...

pass through this county. Changli is one of the largest of China's

winemaking Winemaking or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid. The history of wine-making stretches over millennia. The science of wine and ...

districts, with 80 per cent of the county's tillable land used for growing

Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Sauvignon () is one of the world's most widely recognized red wine grape varieties. It is grown in nearly every major wine producing country among a diverse spectrum of climates from Australia and British Columbia, Canada to Lebanon ...

grapes. For this reason, Changli is sometimes called China's "

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region".

Administrative divisions

The county administers 11 towns and 5 townships.

Climate

Notable people

* Zhang Guangming (1913-2016) veteran fighter pilot of the War of Resistance-World War II, and Major General of the

Chinese Air Force The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF; ), also known as the Chinese Air Force (中国空军) or the People's Air Force (人民空军), is an aerial service branch of the People's Liberation Army, the regular armed forces of the Peo ...

References

External links

Official Changli government website
County-level divisions of Hebei Wine regions of China Qinhuangdao {{Qinhuangdao-geo-stub