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Heilongjiang Province

Location of Heilongjiang Province

Area:	469,000 square km
Population:	36.89 million (2006)
Capital City:	Harbin
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Geography of Heilongjiang Province

Located in the northeastern part of China, Heilongjiang Province boasts rich tourist resources due to its extraordinary geographical feature and climate conditions. Endowed with many wonderful scenic spots including the Greater and Lesser Xing'an Mountains, the Sanjiang Plain, the immense marshland, the vast sea of forest, mysterious border lakes, the five linked lakes formed by volcanic eruptions, the Jingpo Lake, ruins of the Jin-dynasty culture and the site of Bohai Kingdom.

Heilongjiang Province has become now one of the well-known tourist destinations in China. There are a variety of special interest tours catering for tourists such as the ice and snow tour, the forest tour, the summer resort tour, and the border (between China and Russia) town tour.

With the successful construction of several expressway networks, there appear some fast and convenient routes for the tourists from home and abroad. For instance, the O-shaped route with Harbin as it s centre; the K shaped route connecting Mudanjiang, Jiamusi, Yichun, Heihe and Greater Xing'an Mountains with Daqing and Qiqihar; the L-shaped route linking all tourist attractions together along the China-Russia border river. On the basis of the special tours developed over the previous years, a series of brand-new forms of tourist activities have emerged today to meet the different demand of tourists.

With the ecological tour as key product, they are the city sightseeing tour, border tour and ethnic culture tour designed to make all tourists enjoy the exotic as well as the beauty of great nature.

Climate of Heilongjiang Province

Heilongjiang Province has a long and severe winter and a short summer, the average annual temperature between -6ºC and -4ºC. The average temperature of January, the coldest month of the year, is between -32ºC and -17ºC, while that of July, the hottest month, 16ºC to -23ºC. The annual frost-free period lasts from three to four month or longer. The annual precipitation 250-700mm, mostly concentrated in June through August.

Brief History of Heilongjiang Province

Heilongjiang was under the administration of Lingbei and Liaoyang Xingzhongshu Province during China's Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and belonged to the Nuzen (Nuchen) nationality in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The Province of Heilongjiang was set up in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and has remained so until today.

Large in area and rich in natural resources, Heilongjiang has a vast expanse of fertile land. As is commonly known, "half of its area is covered by mountains, one tenth by water, one tenth by grassland and three-tenths by arable land". In the old days, however, Heilongjiang was an uninhabited wilderness with abundant untapped resources. The Imperial Government of the Qing and later the Japanese aggressors sent in settlers and troops to develop the area but ended up in failure. Over the years, Heilongjiang Province was known as "the Vast Wilderness of the North". After the defeat of Japanese imperialism, the people of Heilongjiang started to rebuild their province upon the ruins brought by the war.

Heilongjiang has undergone tremendous changes since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Several million hectares of farmland have been opened in the vast wilderness. Oilfield, many forestry towns, modern transportation network consisting of railway and highways has been built. Former "the Vast Wilderness of the North" has been turned into an important industrial and agricultural base of China.

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Government of Heilongjiang Province

China's Administrative Divisions

4 Municipalities*

23 Provinces:

5 Autonomous Regions***

2 Special Administrative Regions (SAR)****

Notes:

* Municipalities are directly under the administration of central government. A municipality has the same political, economical and jurisdictional rights as a province;

**Taiwan Issue: a result of China's civil war in late 1940s'. In the earlier years of separation of mainland China and Taiwan, both sides of China (also called People's Republic of China "PRC" or "communist China", "red China" , "mainland China") and Taiwan (also called Republic of China "ROC") claim the legal sovereignty over China. Mainland China keeps claiming Taiwan as one of its provinces while Taiwan regards itself as an independent country.)

*** Autonomous Regions was provincial level administrative division of China, like province, an autonomous region has its won local government, but has more legislative rights. Autonomous Region is a minority entity which has higher population of a particular minority ethnic group.

**** Special Administrative Regions (SAR) was established specially designed for solving Hong Kong and Macao issues and based on the concept of "one country, two systems", SAR is in a pattern within which two completely different social systems (socialist system and capitalist system) and ideologies can coexist, SAR has more autonomous power regulated clearly by laws, including executive, legislative and independent judicial power.

The statistics of each administrative division are collected from official and unofficial publications, updated constantly and for your reference only.