He'erbin's 1913 census, taken by the railway administration fifteen years after the railway camp that became the city was founded, counted 68,549 people of 53 nationalities speaking 45 languages, among them 34,313 Russians, 23,537 Chinese and 5,032 Jews.
哈尔滨一九一三年的人口普查由中东铁路管理局主持,距这座铁路营地成为城市只有十五年;普查共统计六万八千五百四十九人,来自五十三个民族,使用四十五种语言,其中俄国人三万四千三百一十三人,中国人二万三千五百三十七人,犹太人五千零三十二人,三者在统计中分列。
Before the railway, the site chosen for...
When the Chinese Eastern Railway opened in 1903 it named a station Qiqihar, but built it 29 kilometres from the city, at Ang'angxi; the Heilongjiang authorities then built a light railway to join the two, which opened in 1909.
一九零三年中东铁路通车时,铁路当局设了一座叫"齐齐哈尔"的车站,却把它建在距城二十九公里的昂昂溪;黑龙江地方当局随后修了一条轻便铁路把两地连起来,一九零九年通车。
Qiqihar is a Daur word meaning...
Jixi has a 19.9-kilometre crater named after it on the asteroid 253 Mathilde, one of 23 named for coalfields because the asteroid is dark and carbonaceous; by 1991 its mining bureau was China's second-largest coal production base.
鸡西有一座直径十九点九公里的撞击坑以它命名,位于小行星253(玛蒂尔德)上;这颗小行星又黑又富含碳,它的二十三座命名撞击坑都以煤田命名;到一九九一年,鸡西矿务局已成为中国第二大煤炭生产基地。
Jixi is named for its position west of...
Hegang's mining chief told his men in 1946 that every extra shovel of coal was a grenade for the front, and by 2020 the city had lost almost 16 percent of its people in a decade.
鹤岗矿务局局长一九四六年对矿工们说,多出一锹煤炭就等于给前方送去一颗手榴弹;到二零二零年,这座城市的人口在十年间减少了将近百分之十六。
The first farmer arrived in 1907, and in 1908...
Shuangyashan takes its name from a pair of hills on its north side that look like ducks lying down, though the city, not the hills, is the newcomer: farmers found coal outcrops there in 1914, and the city was founded only in 1956.
双鸭山的名字取自市区北部一对形似卧鸭的山峰,但真正年轻的是这座城市而不是山:一九一四年农民在这里发现了露头煤,而建市要到一九五六年。
Under Japanese...
September 26, 1959 saw the Songji-3 well begin spraying oil at 13.02 tonnes a day, and the field was named Daqing, meaning great celebration, because it came days before the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic; by March 2023 it had produced 2.5 billion...
Yichun supplied 270 million cubic metres of timber to the country over six decades of logging, then stopped felling natural forest in 2013. 83.8 percent of its land is now under forest, more than three times the national average.
伊春六十多年的森林开发,为国家提供了二点七亿立方米木材,二零一三年全面停止天然林商业性采伐;如今全市森林覆盖率达百分之八十三点八,是全国平均水平的三倍多。
When development began in 1948, Yichun...
Former physical-education teacher Yu Jicheng born in Jiamusi in 1951, devised the Happy Steps routine after watching street dancers on the Songhua river bank, and in 2012 the national sports administration ran its first national training course in it.
于继承是一九五一年出生在佳木斯的前体育教师,他在松花江畔看到跳街舞的人之后,创编了"快乐舞步";二零一二年,国家体育总局举办了第一期"佳木斯快乐舞步健身操"全国培训班。
Jiamusi began as a post-station village,...
Yang Yang, who trained in Qitaihe, won China's first Winter Olympic gold in 2002; the coal city, home to fewer than 700,000 people at the 2020 census, has produced 14 world champions in short-track speed skating, though it had no large indoor rink until...
Ning Zhongyan won China's first Olympic gold in the men's 1500 metres speed skating on 19 February 2026, in an Olympic record of 1:41.98; he grew up in a village in Ning'an, the old Ninguta that once ruled the land where Mudanjiang now stands.
宁忠岩于二零二六年二月十九日夺得中国首枚冬奥会速度滑冰男子1500米金牌,成绩1分41秒98,刷新奥运纪录;他在宁安的一个村庄长大,而宁安就是旧时的宁古塔,曾经管辖着今天牡丹江所在的土地。
He...
Geographer Hu Huanyong drew a line in 1935 from Aihui, now part of Heihe, to Tengchong in Yunnan, showing that 96 percent of China's population lived on just 36 percent of its land; the line is now usually named for Heihe.
地理学家胡焕庸于一九三五年画出一条从瑷珲(今属黑河)到云南腾冲的线,揭示了中国百分之九十六的人口居住在仅占百分之三十六的国土上;如今这条线通常以黑河命名。
The line was first...
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...
Heilongjiang's Daxing'anling Prefecture is administered from Jiagedaqi, a town within the territory of Inner Mongolia's Oroqen Autonomous Banner. A 1979 central notice, repeated by the State Council in 1980, kept Jiagedaqi under Heilongjiang's leadership while its original territorial rights and tax revenue stayed with...
