Frank Hossack

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...

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...

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...

This day, 11 October, in 1972, the People’s Republic of China and the Federal Republic of Germany established diplomatic relations. 1972年10月11日的这一天，中华人民共和国和德意志联邦共和国建立了外交关系。

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...

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...

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...

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...