Huang had been in close contact with ducks at a market in Hebei Province, which neighbors Beijing, on December 19.

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In Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, dozens of cases have emerged among migrant labourers returning to their rural homes from the capital.

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The city of Cangzhou, in Hebei province, decided a few years ago that its path to prosperity lay in making itself a centre of the chemical industry.

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Hengshui is located in Hebei, a neighboring province to Beijing, and has an urban population of 460, 240, and a total population of 4, 340, 373.

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Wuqiao County, in the flat farmlands of Hebei Province on the North China Plain, is home to dozens of acrobatic schools.

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The spear tip of Nokia's distribution network in China is a van that leaves every afternoon from Zhuo Zhou city in northern China's Hebei province.

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Her 61-year-old sister, on the other hand, still lives in the neighbouring province of Hebei, where she collects a meagre pension of 80 yuan a month.

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Sounding a little embarrassed, Mr Li admits this is the first year he has attempted to work as a fake boyfriend instead of travelling home to see his own family in China's central Hebei province.

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The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center said high pollutions were also recorded in others parts of China, including Tianjin and Hebei province.

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Xi's early political career took him from his native province to Hebei and later Fujian, where he served as vice governor in 1999, before being promoted to governor a year later.

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