Suihua; the Grain City that Lost Nearly a Tenth of its People in Five Years

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Suihua produced 12.4 million tonnes of grain in 2025, its 22nd consecutive bumper harvest, while its permanent population fell by 67,000 to 3.394 million, nearly a tenth fewer people than at the 2020 census.

绥化二零二五年粮食产量达一千二百四十一万吨,实现”二十二连丰”;年末常住人口却减少六点七万人,降至三百三十九点四万人,比二零二零年人口普查时少了近十分之一。

Farming still dominates the economy. The primary sector made up 40.8 percent of GDP in 2025, six times the national share of 6.7 percent, against 14.6 percent for the secondary sector and 44.6 percent for services.

农业依然是这里的经济支柱。二零二五年,第一产业占GDP的百分之四十点八,是全国百分之六点七的六倍,第二产业占百分之十四点六,第三产业占百分之四十四点六。

According to Suihua’s 2025 statistical communiqué, GDP reached ¥128.51 billion, up 3.4 percent, with GDP per capita of ¥37,522. Grain production totalled 12.4152 million tonnes, up 357,800 tonnes on 2024. Planting included 1.192 million hectares of corn, 364,400 hectares of soybeans and 264,200 hectares of rice.

绥化市二零二五年统计公报显示,全年GDP达一千二百八十五点一亿元,同比增长百分之三点四,人均地区生产总值三万七千五百二十二元。全年粮食产量一千二百四十一点五二万吨,比上年增加三十五点七八万吨;玉米种植面积一百一十九点二万公顷,大豆三十六点四四万公顷,水稻二十六点四二万公顷。

A Grove, a Plague and Ten Thousand Years
一片林子、一场鼠疫与一万年

Suihua was a settlement called Beituanlinzi, or North Round Grove, from 1862. On 20 November 1885 the Qing set up the Suihua Directly Ruled Subprefecture there and gave the place its present name, and it became a county in 1913, according to the city government. The State Council approved the present prefecture-level city in December 1999.

绥化自一八六二年起是一个名叫北团林子的聚落。据绥化市政府介绍,一八八五年十一月二十日,清廷在此设绥化直隶厅,将北团林子改名绥化,一九一三年改为绥化县;国务院于一九九九年十二月批准设立现在的地级绥化市。

The city government says people lived in the area about 10,000 years ago, in the Palaeolithic, and that in the Xia and Shang periods it was the land of the Sushen.

绥化市政府介绍,大约一万年前的旧石器时代,境内就有古人类繁衍生息;夏商时期,这里是肃慎之地。

The 1910–11 pneumonic plague killed 1,583 people in the Suihua prefecture of the day and 2,059 in Hailun, now a county-level city under Suihua, according to a Tencent News account of the official tolls, against 6,067 in Hulan, now part of Harbin and the worst-hit place in Heilongjiang.

据腾讯新闻整理的官方统计,一九一零至一九一一年的肺鼠疫,在当时的绥化府造成一千五百八十三人死亡,在海伦(今为绥化代管的县级市)造成二千零五十九人死亡,而黑龙江受灾最重的呼兰(今属哈尔滨)则有六千零六十七人死亡。

Fewer People, Better Rail
人口减少,铁路改善

Suihua had 3,756,167 permanent residents at the 2020 census and 3.394 million at the end of 2025, according to its communiqué, with 6,800 births against 31,300 deaths that year; 47.97 percent of residents now live in towns and cities.

绥化市统计公报显示,绥化二零二零年人口普查常住人口为三百七十五万六千一百六十七人,二零二五年末为三百三十九点四万人,当年出生六千八百人,死亡三万一千三百人;常住人口城镇化率为百分之四十七点九七。

Suihua joined the national high-speed rail network on 28 September 2026, when the Harbin–Yichun line opened with a station at Suihua South; the fastest trains reach Harbin in 42 minutes, according to the Heilongjiang government.

据黑龙江省人民政府介绍,二零二六年九月二十八日,哈伊高铁开通运营,绥化南站同时启用,绥化由此接入全国高铁网;至哈尔滨最快仅需四十二分钟。

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