Editing Rehe Province (section)

== History ==
Rehe was once at the core of the [[Khitan people|Khitan]]-led [[Liao dynasty|Liao Dynasty]]. Rehe was conquered by the [[Manchu]] [[Eight Banners|banners]] before they took possession of Beijing in 1644. Between 1703 and 1820, the Qing emperors spent almost each summer in their summer [[Chengde Mountain Resort|Mountain Resort]] in Chengde. They governed the empire from Chengde, and received their foreign diplomats and representatives of vassal and tributary countries. The [[Kangxi Emperor|Kangxi emperor]] restricted the admission to the forests and prairies of Rehe to the court's hunting expeditions and to the maintenance of the imperial cavalry. Agricultural settlements were at first forbidden to [[Han Chinese]]. In the early 19th century, by which time Rehe had become part of the province of [[Zhili]], migrants from Hebei and Liaoning settled in Rehe and displaced the Mongol communities.

The [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] created the '''Jehol Special Area''' in 1914 and '''Jehol Province''' in 1923. To form a [[buffer zone]] between China proper and Japanese-controlled [[Manchukuo]], the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] invaded Jehol in [[Operation Nekka]] on 21 January 1933. It was subsequently annexed by the Empire of Manchukuo, as Jehol Province. The seizure of Jehol deteriorated relations between Japan and China, and was one of the incidents that led to the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]].

At the end of [[World War II]], when the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] resumed control of Manchuria, the [[Kuomintang]] government continued to administer the area as a separate province, reverting its name to Jehol Province, with its capital in [[Hailar, China|Hailar]]. After the [[Communist Party of China|Communist]] victory in the [[Chinese Civil War]], establishment of the [[People's Republic of China]], and enactment of [[pinyin]] in 1958, the area has retrospectively become known as '''Rehe Province'''. However, the province had already been divided between [[Hebei Province]], [[Liaoning Province]], [[Tianjin]], and [[Inner Mongolia]] in 1955.