Harbin is the capital city of Heilongjiang province, China’s most North-easterly province. The province has a population of 39 million and Harbin’s population is officially 10 million with about 4 million living in the city proper, making Harbin one of China’s 10 largest cities. As the Province’s largest city and capital, Harbin’s economy is largely white collar, servicing the primarily agricultural and heavy industry bases of the rest of the province.
Harbin is a more traditional city than the major cities of southern China since it has not been westernized as much. However, Harbin is a more developed city than most westerners expect of China. Anything that you would expect to find in stores, in the West, can usually be found here. In general the only exceptions are some particular spices or certain brand names.
As a northern city, Harbin has similar weather to the Canadian Prairies or American Midwest. The summer is usually 20 to 35 C (68 to 95 F) and the winter -10 to -30 C (+14 to -22 F). During the winter, Harbin has an ice festival, which is the city’s most well-known tourist attraction..
Coming near Harbin, people will feel its sanctity of an ice city and its delicacy of a summer capital that is a modernized metropolis, rising and soaring.
Situated in north part of northeast China, Harbin governs 8 districts and 10 counties(cities),covering an area of 53100square km with a population of 9.899 million. Now it ranks first as a provincial capital and second as an oversize city with its population in our country. Here enjoys abundant resource and fertile soil for rejuvenating the industry with business opportunity for investment.
Reflecting with European style and straightforward north-China characteristics, beautiful Harbin constitutes the picturesque sceneries, such as St. Sofia delivering holy sound accompanied by flying white pigeons; Harbin Summer Concert arousing delightful songs for 40 years; Sun Island reminding people’s fine memories; Zhongyang Street’s European-style architecture flaring oriental Paris elegance; Songhuajiang River nourishing the city; Ice and Snow World leading to dreamful paradise; Yabuli Ski Resort acting for skiing games…..So these unique historic course and natural condition forge a nice city featuring European style and vogue energy. Industrious and wise Harbin people have been not only creating special cultural consisting of foreign and domestic conventions, but also making ice-snow sculptures endowed with life, figuring marvelous spectacle of ice and snow to win the honorable title “Ice City and Capital Summer” for the “city of bright pearl under swan neck”
Having bath under first sunshine of new century and displaying splendid future, Harbin people, upon “opening up and containing, vogue and vitality, sincerity and respecting enterprise, harmony and advancing “with passionate efforts for grand open-up and great development, are completely actualized the development strategy of “striding in north, exploiting in south, prospering in center and strengthening countries” to compose a new chapter for the new century.
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