According to the inquiry of the National Bureau of Statistics, Handan is located at the southern end of Hebei Province, which is the center of the four provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration and the Bohai Economic Zone. With convenient transportation and superior geographical location, Handan pays more attention to the development of primary and secondary industries, and the importance of tourism has weakened, gradually changing from a tourist city to a commercial city.

With the decline of industry, Handan's development has been affected to some extent and it has been classified as a third-tier city.