Xingtai railway station (Chinese: 邢台站) is a station on Beijing–Guangzhou railway in Xingtai, Hebei.
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The Battle of Julu was fought in Julu in 207 BC primarily between forces of the Qin dynasty and the insurgent state of Chu. The Qin commander was Zhang Han, while the Chu leader was Xiang Yu. The battle concluded with a decisive victory for the rebels over the larger Qin army. The battle marked the decline of Qin military power as the bulk of the Qin armies were destroyed in this battle.
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The 1937 Heze earthquakes struck the Mudan District in Shandong Province, China on July 31 and August 1 respectively. The moment magnitude 7.0 and 6.7 earthquakes were centered near the city of Heze. Although the total number of casualties has never been finalized, at least 3,252 people died and 12,701 were injured. The earthquakes also killed more than 6,000 livestock and destroyed 470,000 homes. Due to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, rescue operations by the Chinese government were ineffective.
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The Xingtai earthquake was a sequence of major earthquakes that took place between March 8 and March 29, 1966, in the area administered by the prefecture-level city of Xingtai in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China.
The first earthquake with magnitude 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale and epicenter in Longyao County occurred in the early morning of March 8, 1966. It was followed by a sequence of five earthquakes above magnitude 6 that lasted until March 29, 1966. The strongest of these quakes had a magnitude of 6.8 and took place in the southeastern part of Ningjin County on March 22. The earthquake damage included 8,064 dead, 38,000 injured and more than 5 million destroyed houses.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunde/Shunteh/Xingtai, Chinese: 順得, 邢台) is a diocese located in the city of Xingtai in the ecclesiastical province of Beijing in China.
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Dahuoquan Subdistrict is an urban subdistrict located in Xindou District, Xingtai, Hebei, China. According to the 2010 census, Dahuoquan Subdistrict had a population of 35,809, including 18,047 males and 17,762 females. The population was distributed as follows: 5,360 people aged under 14, 28,570 people aged between 15 and 64, and 1,879 people aged over 65.
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The station was opened in 1903 as Shunde Fu railway station (Chinese: 顺德府车站) .