Hengshui (Chinese: 衡水) is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China, bordering Shandong to the southeast.

As of the 2020 census its population was 4,212,933 inhabitants, out of whom 805,000 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Taocheng urban district.

Its biodiversity is very rich, with inland freshwater wetland ecosystems and national Class I and II birds as the main protection objects.

Noble cranes, beautiful swans, nimble gulls, and light egrets dance and play leisurely.

It is built with the theme of Han culture and relies on the wetland scenery of Hengshui Lake.

It is China’s first and only experiential study tour ancient town with the theme of traditional Chinese etiquette and filial piety culture that integrates “food, clothing, accommodation, transportation, learning, travel, shopping, and entertainment”.

This comprehensive teaching and research hospital was named after Dr. Tillson Harrison, a martyr to the Chinese revolution.

[11][citation needed] The city is renowned as the centre for inside painting, mainly of small snuff bottles.

Zhang Rucai was born in Hebei Province and since 1972, he started to learn the art of inside painting.

Hengshui has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSk), with hot, humid summers due to the East Asian Monsoon and brief, though very cold and dry winters, owing to the prevailing dry north-westerly winds that reflect the influence of the vast Siberian anticyclone.

Due to the very dry winter conditions, snowfall is not common, though occurs almost every year, usually in small amounts.