1, no historical precipitation. Shijiazhuang used to be a village, but in the past 100 years, it has gradually developed into a city, because it has become the crossroads of the Beijing-Han Railway and the Zheng Tai Railway. Shijiazhuang is a city pulled by railway. But this advantage is gradually disappearing with the rise of railway network, especially high-speed rail network.

Shijiazhuang is close to Beijing and Tianjin, and now xiong'an new area is on the rise. Hebei can't form so many first-tier cities.

Shijiazhuang is the provincial capital, but unlike some cities in the south, emerging industries are booming. Although there are also emerging industries, compared with the rapidly developing southern cities, it is too far away to develop into a first-tier city without the support of emerging industries.

4. First-tier cities need to be highly international. Shijiazhuang is nicknamed "International Village", but the degree of internationalization is weak. The expansion of Shijiazhuang's urban area does not rely on absorbing a lot of manpower and financial resources from other provinces and other places, but on absorbing the rural population of surrounding counties, that is to say, absorbing the local population, and the water source is limited.

The soaring housing prices in Shijiazhuang are almost catching up with the first-tier cities, but the income of ordinary people is not as good as that of a third-tier city in other provinces, which makes the talents and financial resources that have already overflowed flow to other aspects.

6. Too conservative ideas and thoughts restrict the possibility of Shijiazhuang becoming a first-tier city, and Shijiazhuang people lack flexible means to engage in economy.