It is about 270 Kilomaters from Beijing to Shijiazhuang, 3 hours by car.  
It is about 280 Kilomaters from Tianjin to Shijiazhuang, 4 hours by car.
Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei Province, is situated 270 kilometers southwest of Beijing. Bordering the Taihang Mountains in the west, it faces the vast and rich North China Plain on its three other sides. It is the intersection of the Beijing-Guangzhou, Shijiazhuang-Dezhou, and Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan railway lines and one of the centers of communications in China. It encompasses 15,653 square kilometres, has a population of 8.75 million.