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¡€area£º53068 square kilometre
¡€longitude£º126° 46' ¶«
¡€latitude£º45° 45' ±±
¡€altitude£º143 m
¡€population£º935 0000
¡€postcode£º150000
¡€areacode£º0451
 		     Harbin£¬capital of Heilongjaing Province, the largest metroplis in the northern part of Northeast of P. R. China, a city full of exotic atmosphere, a city of glittering and translucence, a city in which many World Top 500 enterprises invest, is welcoming your coming like a flying swan.

¡¡¡¡The cultural mix of Chinese and Western culture, long history and wonderful civilization endow Harbin with splendid past.


¡¡¡¡Harbin is a young immigrants city. Nearly 1,000 years ago, Harbin was the Jin Dynasty¡¯s capital, and experienced a strong resurgence during the Qing Dynasty as the first Manchu power base. Over the past 100 years, it has grown from a fishing village, with just 30,000 residents living along the banks of the Songhua River, into a bustling metroplis. With construction of the Middle East railway, Harbin developed swiftly and was beginning to take shape. Now, the architectural heritage in many Russian and European-style buildings in Harbin which expressed the city¡¯s already distinctively cosmopolitan style. By the 1920s and 1930s, Harbin had 16 foreign consulates and 200,000 nationals from 28 countries. Foreigners made up near a third of Harbin¡¯s population. Numerous domestic and foreign enterprises set up in Harbin.

¡¡¡¡Predominate geographical position, special human landscapes and enriched industrial resources create great development potential for Harbin.

¡¡¡¡The population: 9.7023 million, including3.9454 million urban residents.

¡¡¡¡The total area: 53,068 km2, including 4,272 km2 in the urban area. Harbin dominates the precincts as follows: Daoli Dist., Daowai Dist., Nangang Dist., Xiangfang Dist., Dongli Dist., Pingfang Dist., Songbei Dist., Hulan Dist.,and Wuchang City, Shuangcheng City, A-cheng City, Shangzhi City, Bin County, Bayan County, Yilan County, Yanshou County, Mulan County, Tonghe County and Fangzheng County.

¡¡¡¡Heilongjiang province shares over 3,040 kilometers borderline with Russian. Harbin£¬situated in the center of the Northeast Asian Economic Region, is the largest metropolis within the opening up belt along the Chinese borders and an important connecting point of the first Euro-Asian continental bridge as well. ¡°Fair for Trade and Economic Cooperation in Harbin, China¡±, which has been successfully held for 15 years ever since 1990, has become an important bridge and window for Harbin to develop foreign trade and economic & technological cooperation with other countries all over the world, especially with Russia, CISs and East European countries and is developing into an International Exhibition Conference.

¡¡¡¡With vast territory, rich soil, ample summer rains and fresh air, Harbin is the important base for production of commodity grain in China and an ideal location for setting up food processing operations and agricultural businesses. The rich soil, called ¡°black earth¡± is one of the most nutrient rich in China, the best for cultivating food and textile-related crops. The outputs of soybean, potato, flax and sugar beet in Harbin rank the first in China. A large number of local native products are well known both at home and abroad, such as pelt of marten, hog bristles, horse tail, black fungus, hedgehog hydnum, black currant, fiddlehead, royal jelly and linden honey, etc. The quality of such precious medicinal materials as saposhnikovia divaricata, licorice, wilsonii, ginseng, astragalus membranaceus, etc. leads the country. The precious tree species, such as Korean pine, Kakihatea, northeast China ash, golden cypress etc, grow in the north and the east of Harbin. All these products provide sufficient materials for processing industry.
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¡¡¡¡Harbin is a city with pleasant weather and four distinct seasons, each having different spotlights. Tourists, who are enchanted by Harbin¡¯s Chinese and Foreign combined style and features, straightforward and unconstrained amorous feelings of northern nationalities and fascinating landscapes, do not want to go home. The annual Harbin Summer Music Festival, Ice Lanterns Show and Ice and Snow World show Harbin¡¯s profound cultural connotation. Harbin is endowed with secret sense by famous reputation of ¡°Paris of the East¡± and ¡°Moscow of the East¡±. Harbin is quite well known at home and abroad for its ice and snow tour and activities. Such scenic spots have formed a tourist destination with special characteristic of North, China as the Confucius Temple, Jile Temple (Sakhavati), Sophia Church, Central Street with Russian Style, Xiaohong's Former Residence, the Mansion of Huining Prefecture of Shangjing in Jin Dynasty and other cultural & historic relics, together with the following scenic areas for sightseeing, such as Yuquan Hunting Fields, the Manchurian Tiger Garden, Yabuli Tourist & Skiing Resort, and the Virgin Forest and Jingpo Lake, Wudalianchi, Zhalong Natural Protective Region near Harbin as well.

¡¡¡¡Rich cultural life, human resources with high quality, perfect infra-structural facilities and solid industrial foundation charm Harbin with a modern city.

¡¡¡¡Harbin people are of hospitality and are in fashion. There stand a lot of shopping malls, restaurants, hotels and places for relaxation in main business circles, such as Central Street and Guogeli Street, being the first choice for relaxation and amusement of Harbinee. The special local products are also famous all over the world, including sausages, Russian style bread, flax and so on. Harbinee are good at holding festival activities, such as Beer Festival, Ski Festival and Drift Festival, enriching Harbin people¡¯s cultural life after-hours.
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¡¡¡¡Harbin owns a great number of first class colleges and universities in China, such as the famous Harbin Institute of Technology and Harbin Engineering University and other scientific research institutions, possessing high technology industries which consist of electronic information, electromechanical integration, new materials, high effective and energy save, and biological engineering. Harbin Institute of Technology contributes a lot to successful launch of Chinese spaceship Shen Zhou V. By the end of 2004, there have been 33 universities and 17 continuation colleges in Harbin. 8 national and 19 provincial technological centers for enterprises have been established here. 958 great scientific & technological achievements were attained in 2004, of which, 205 had reached advanced world level. Such labors with high quality provide sufficient human resources for developing modernized enterprises.