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Shijiazhuang
- is the provincial capital of Hebei. After the founding of the
People's Republic, it became a progressive city focusing on textile,
chemical and machinery industries. Textiles is the fastest growing and
accounts for one-third of the city's total manufacturing. This sector's
products are supplied to both internal and external markets but the
chemical industry has developed into an important sector for primary
chemistry, chemical fertilizers, medicine and plastics. The Huabei Pharmaceutical
Factory is China's largest integrated producer of medical products,
including antibiotics, asylum and glucose. The city's power industry
started recently and have already established electric power, metallurgical
and coal industries to pave the way for oil, building materials and
light industry development.
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