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Harbin

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Harbin , Rus. Kharbin, city (1994 est. pop. 2,505,200), capital of Heilongjiang prov., China, on the Songhua River. It is the major trade and communications center of central Manchuria , the junction of the two most important railroads in Manchuria, and the main port on the Songhua. Part of the great Manchurian industrial complex of metallurgical, machinery, chemical, petroleum, and coal industries, Harbin also has railroad shops, food-processing establishments (soybeans are a major commodity), and plants making tractors, turbines, boilers, precision instruments, electrical and electronic equipment, cement, and fertilizer.

Harbin was unimportant until Russia was granted a concession (1896) and built a modern section alongside the old Chinese town. (Russia surrendered its concession in 1924.) Flooded by White Russian refugees after 1917, Harbin had one of the largest European populations in East Asia. Most of the Europeans left the city following the rise to power of the Chinese Communists. Harbin's institutions of higher learning include Harbin Polytechnical Univ., a medical college, and several technical institutes. The city has a well-known winter ice festival.

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Harbin

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Harbin (Haerbin) Heilongkiang/China Binjiang Developed from a small fishing village in 1905 and called Binjiang, it was renamed Binjiang County in 1913. It became a city in 1932 and was known simply as Binjiang during the existence of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in 1932–45. Lying on the Sungari River, the name means ‘Place where Fish are dried’ or ‘Place for drying Fishing Nets in the Sun’ in Manchu. It has also been suggested that it is the Chinese version of a Jin dynasty (265–420) word A‐le‐jin said to mean ‘honour’ or ‘glory’.

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Harbin

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Harbin (Haerbin) City on the River Sungari, ne China; capital of Heilungkiang province. It was a place of refuge for White Russians after the Revolution of 1917. Ruled by Japan from 1932 to 1945, it was then briefly occupied by Soviet forces before falling to the Chinese communists in 1946. Industries: oil, coal, turbines and generators, mining equipment, sugar refining, food processing, paper. Pop. (1999 est.) 9,271,000.

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