JEHOL or Cheng-Te-Fu is the capital of a special adminis trative area, to the north of the Great Wall, formerly attached to the Chinese province of Chihli. The city is situated about 13o m. N. E. of Peking at the head of navigation of the Lwan-ho on a plain within the belt of scarps which separates the Mongolian plateau from the lowlands of North China. It is famous in Chi nese history as the summer residence of the Manchu dynasty, used mainly in autumn when the emperor was journeying to the great hunting-grounds (Wei-Chang) beyond Jehol, which was connected with the capital by a carefully graded road with nu merous rest-houses. It was in the palace of Jehol, built in 1703,
that the emperor Ch'ien Lung received the historic trade mission from England, headed by Lord Macartney, in 1793. In recent times the country round Jehol, formerly an imperial reserve, has been opened up for agricultural use and is being occupied by an increasing number of Chinese immigrants. The northern portion of the administrative district is drained towards Manchuria and is becoming economically linked up with it.