heilungkiang

Example Sentences

• "Mutankiang, the second city of Heilungkiang, is the industrial center of the East Manchurian uplands."
• "In probing this intriguing question, Mrs. Sargent outlines the unusual leadership change which took place in Heilungkiang on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. During the winter of 1965 to 1966, Provincial CCP First Secretary Ouyang Ch'in disappeared from public view and, in May 1966, he was replaced by P'an Fu-sheng who had a strikingly un-Maoist record."
• "According to an intelligence report, the social problems derived from retired soldiers were the consequence of a Heilungkiang incident in late 1980. Almost all the state-run farms in Heilungkiang Province were deliberately destroyed in that incident by retired servicemen in protest against being maltreated by the Peiping regime."
• "Mainland China's petroleum industry enjoyed spectacular growth between 1960 and 1978, when the Taching (Daqing) oilfield in Heilungkiang (Heilongjiang) Province began to operate on a large-scale basis."
• "Trafficking by both Soviet officials and exiled White Russians in the Far East was a consequence of the disintegration of the Romanov Empire. The population of Harbin, the chief city of Heilungkiang (Heilongjiang) province in central Manchuria and strategic centre of the Manchurian railway system, rose from about 40,000 inhabitants in 1911 to 332, 000 twenty years later."
• "Manzhouli is about 1,000 km (700 miles) north of Beijing, China's capital. It was on the former Chinese Eastern Railway (CER) in what was then known as northern Manchuria and, until China's Communist Party set up the People's Republic in 1949, was part of Heilungkiang Province."