Two railway stations stood about two kilometres apart from 1907, one run by Russia and one by Japan, because the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth had divided control of the railway between the two empires at Changchun.
一九零七年起,有两座火车站相距约两公里,一座归俄国所有,一座归日本所有,原因是一九零五年的《朴茨茅斯条约》使这条铁路在长春由俄日两国分段控制。
Russia's Kuanchengzi station, built in 1899 on its broad-gauge...
Jilin is the only city in China that shares its name with its province. The city came first. It was the provincial capital until 1954, and its name comes from the Manchu Girin Ula, meaning "along the river".
吉林是全国唯一与所在省份同名的城市。先有吉林市，后有吉林省。吉林市曾是吉林省省会，直到1954年；它的名字源自满语"吉林乌拉"，意为"沿江"。
The river is the Songhua, which runs...
Siping was a village called Sipingjie until 1902. That year the railway between Changchun and the port of Dalian was completed. A station opened, traders arrived and within a generation the village had become a regional commercial centre.
1902年以前，四平还只是一个名叫"四平街"的村落。那一年，长春至大连港的铁路建成通车。车站设立，商人随之而来，不到一代人的时间，这个村落就发展成为区域性商业中心。
The railway also shaped who held power...
General Jonathan Wainwright, the highest-ranking American captured in the Second World War, was held from December 1944 at a secret camp in a Manchurian coal town, and weighed under 45 kilograms at 1.88 metres when freed.
乔纳森·温莱特将军是二战期间被俘的美军最高级别将领;一九四四年十二月起,他被关押在东北一座煤城的秘密战俘营里,获救时身高一米八八,体重却不到四十五公斤。
The camp opened on 1 December 1944 inside the...
Tonghua was Manchukuo's last capital, for nine days in August 1945, after the Kwantung Army ordered the government to retreat there from Changchun, and Puyi read his abdication edict at the iron-mining village of Dalizigou, then in Tonghua's jurisdiction and now part of Baishan.
通化是伪满洲国的最后一座"国都",时间只有一九四五年八月的九天:关东军命令伪满政府由长春撤往通化,而溥仪宣读退位诏书的地点,是当时隶属通化、如今归白山管辖的铁矿小镇大栗子。
The...
Nearly 200 springs in the mountains around Baishan flow a combined 455,000 cubic metres of water a day, and the city says an international drinking-water organisation named it China's International Mineral Water City in 2004.
白山境内近两百处泉眼,日流量合计达四十五万五千立方米;当地称,二零零四年一家国际饮水资源保护组织将白山命名为"中国·白山国际矿泉城"。
Jingyu county got there first: in 2000 the mineral water...
Sun Yat-sen's Industrial Plan, written in 1918 and 1919, called for a railway hub he named Dongzhen, to be built south-west of where the Nen and Songhua rivers meet, like a spider's nest at the centre of its web; Songyuan, founded in 1992, stands...
Forty-two testers at a new proving ground on Jilin's western grassland, with no environmental chamber yet built, simulated a sandstorm in autumn 1955 by shovelling dust into the wind to see whether a pistol would still fire.
一九五五年秋,吉林西部草原一座新建靶场上,四十二名试验人员在尚无环境模拟实验室的条件下,用铁锹把尘土扬进风里,模拟沙尘暴,检验一支手枪在风沙中还能不能击发。
The pistol test was completed on 24 October...
Shop signs, road signs and official seals across Yanbian, in China's north-east, must carry both Korean and Chinese, and local rules say that when the two are set side by side the Korean comes first, or on top.
在中国东北的延边,店铺招牌、路牌与公章都必须同时使用朝鲜文和汉文;当地规定,两种文字并排书写时,朝鲜文排在前面或上方。
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture was founded on...
