Sanhe () is a

county-level city A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...

administered by the

Langfang Langfang () is a prefecture-level city of Hebei Province, which was known as Tianjin Prefecture until 1973. It was renamed Langfang Prefecture after Tianjin became a municipality and finally upgraded into a prefecture-level city in 1988. Lang ...

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in eastern

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 0 ...

province,

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. Sanhe city,

Dachang Hui Autonomous County Dachang Hui Autonomous County (; Xiao'erjing: ) is a Hui autonomous county of Hebei province. It is under the administration of Langfang prefecture-level city, and was established in 1955. The Hui Muslim county of Dachang was subjected to slaught ...

, and

Xianghe County Xianghe County () is a county of central Hebei province. It is under the administration of Langfang prefecture-level city. Xianghe has 7 towns and 2 townships. It is southeast of Beijing. Sanhe city, Dachang Hui Autonomous County and Xianghe Co ...

form the " Northern Three Counties of Langfang", an exclave of

province surrounded by the

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

and

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municipalities. The name of the city literally means "Three Rivers".

Administrative divisions

Sanhe has 5

subdistricts A subdistrict or sub-district is an administrative division that is generally smaller than a district. Equivalents * Administrative posts of East Timor, formerly Portuguese-language * Kelurahan, in Indonesia * Mukim, a township in Brunei, Indon ...

and 10 towns. There are 395 villages within those subdistricts/towns.

Subdistricts

* Dingshengdongdajie Subdistrict (), Juyangxidajie Subdistrict (), Kejilu Subdistrict (), Yingbinbeilu Subdistrict (), Xinggongdongdajie Subdistrict ()

Towns

* Juyang (), Liqizhuang (), Yangzhuang (), Huangzhuang (), Xinji (), Duanjialing (), Huangtuzhuang (), Gaolou (), Qixinzhuang (), Yanjiao ()

Development Zones

* Yanjiao Economic and Technological Development Zone (national level) () * Sanhe Agricultural High-tech Zone ()

Climate

Transportation

Expressway & Highway

* G0121 Beijing–Qinhuangdao Expressway, G95 Capital Area Loop Expressway * China National Highway 102 * Provincial Highway: S204, S206, S274

Railway

* Beijing-Qinhuangdao railway * Beijing-Tangshan intercity railway (Under construction) * Beijing-Binhai intercity railway (Under construction)

Subway

* Pinggu line (Line 22) of

Beijing Subway The Beijing Subway is the rapid transit system of Beijing Municipality that consists of 25 lines including 20 rapid transit lines, two airport rail links, one maglev line and 2 light rail lines, and 463 stations. The rail network extends acro ...

have 5 stations in Sanhe. The line is under planning.

History

Sanhe was virtually destroyed by a major earthquake that occurred on September 2, 1679.

Attack on ARD film crew

In February, 2013 German television crew from ARD was attacked by a group of men in at least 4 vehicles. The ARD crew including correspondent Christine Adelhardt had been filming in the village of Da Yan Ge Zhuang () in Juyang, Sanhe city. A group of men in two vehicles drove to the ARD crew and intimidated them. Two other vehicles joined the group of men and pursued the fleeing ARD van on the highway. The ARD van was forced to a halt and 5 to 6 of the men got out to smash the windshield of the van with baseball bats. The ARD van was able to get away and sought help on passing two motorcycle policemen, who tried stopping the men from once again attacking the ARD crew. However, only after police reinforcements arrived was the situation brought under control. According to statement from the Foreign Correspondents Club of China condemning the attack, a witness identified one of the vehicles involved in the attack as belonging to the "Da Yan Ge Zhuang village communist party secretary". The ARD crew was taken into police custody and questioned for 16 hours then released. A police officer told an ARD reporter that the attackers had been "offended" because the crew did not ask for permission to film in the village.

References

External links

Sanhe City Government Website
County-level cities in Hebei Enclaves in China Langfang {{Langfang-geo-stub