Shijiazhuang is the capital and most populous city of China's Hebei Province. A prefecture-level city 266 kilometres southwest of Beijing, …Shijiazhuang is the capital and most populous city of China's Hebei Province. A prefecture-level city 266 kilometres southwest of Beijing, it administers eight districts, three county-level cities and eleven counties, and is east of the Taihang Mountains, which extend over 400 km from north to south with an average elevation of 1,500 to 2,000 m.