Situated in the center of the city cluster  north of the Yellow River in the Central Plains  Economic Zone, Hebi is one of the 14 core  cities in the Central Plains City Cluster  Development Plan approved by the State  Council.  Hebi  enjoys  convenient  traffic.  It   is

130 kilometers to Zhengzhou Xinzheng  International Airport to the south and 500  kilometers to Tianjin, Qingdao, Lianyungang  ports to the east. Within a radius of 500  kilometers, there are five provincial capitals of  Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, Jinan, Wuhan and  Taiyuan and two municipalities of Beijing and  Tianjin,   covering   a   consumer population  of

400 million. The Beijing-Guangzhou high-  speed railway, the Beijing-Guangzhou  railway, the national highway 107 and the  Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao expressway run  through the city from north and south; the  Shanxi-Henan-Shandong railway has been  open to traffic and the Zhengzhou-Jinan  high-speed railway passes the city through;  the expressways connecting Jincheng in  Shanxi Province to Rizhao and Qingdao via  Hebi is under accelerated construction. These  railway and expressway lines constitute a  "four longitudinal and two transverse" traffic  pattern. From Hebi, you can reach Zhengzhou  in 30 minutes and Beijing in two and a half  hours by high-speed train.