Chahar Province (in simplified Chinese 察哈爾省) was built in 1912. It was one of  the old provincial-level administrative regions of the Republic of China. Chahar Province, or “Cha” for short, is named after the Mongolian group. The provincial capital of Chahar Province was Zhangjiakou. It is one of the four provinces of the Saibei Provinces. Chahar Zhang, the anti-Japanese hero, served as the governor of this province at that time.

In fact, during the Qing period, this place was not a province of China. Instead, it was called “Cheung Hang Special Administrative Region.”, which was named after the famous general Cheung Hang.

In two years of the Republic of China in 1913, this piece of land was changed into particular areas and there are six towns and 11 counties, namely Zhangbei, Duolun, Guyuan, Shun Dao, Baochang, Kangbao, Hing An, Katalin , Jining, Fengzhen and Leung City.

The area of this province was about 278,957 square kilometers and according to the population statistics in 1947, the first half of the year the province was having population of 2,114,288 people, and for the second half there were 2,150,054 people living in the province. As there is a relatively constant number of people living in this province, it is believed that the Province was free from war or less affected by it. It is because it is very clear that once there are wars, people would try to escape from the place and move to other safer places. Therefore, during the civil war period of China in 1947, the population of this province was still quite stable, so we could conclude that this province is less affected by the war.

Before the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the neighboring provinces of this province were Mongolia, Xing’an Province, northern Liaoning province, Rehe Province, Hebei Province, Shanxi Province, Suiyuan Province.

In 1952, under the new planning of the People’s Republic of China, this province was abolished and its land is divided into different parts and was grouped with other provinces like the Inner Mongolia. Some of the areas had become Beijing’s area.