Heilongjiang

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黑龍江 / 黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hāʹlo͝ongʹjē-ängʹ, hāʹlo͝ongʹjyängʹ

Proper noun

Heilongjiang

  1. A province in northeastern China. Capital: Harbin.
    • 1977, Jean Chesneaux, Françoise Le Barbier, Marie-Claire Bergère, “The Republic of the Warlords: 1916–1919”, in Paul Auster, Lydia Davis, transl., China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 46:
      Zhang Zuo-lin (1873-1928), a former bandit chief who joined the army, was appointed governor of Moukden by Yuan Shi-kai in exchange for services rendered. Using political intrigue and military pressure, he got Heilongjiang (1917) and Jilin (1919) under his control, thus becoming master of the three provinces of Manchuria.
    • 2007 December 24, Shipeng Guo, Benjamin Kang Lim, “China detains farmers urging land privatization”, in Lindsay Beck, Roger Crabb, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 March 2023, World News‎:
      Yu Changwu from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang has urged the ruling Communist Party to honor its “revolutionary ideals and pledges” and hand land back to the farmers.
    • 2020 April 29, “China tries to contain new coronavirus outbreak”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 30 April 2020, Asia‎:
      A series of new COVID-19 cases in China's far northeastern Heilongjiang province is raising concern that a second wave of the virus could emerge in the Asian country.
    • 2023 November 23, “China renews alerts for cold waves, strong winds”, in EFE, archived from the original on 23 November 2023:
      During this period, minimum temperatures in some parts of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang could fall to below minus 30 degrees Celsius.
  2. Alternative form of Heilong Jiang, the Amur River: a major river in the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China.
    • 1981 August 18 , Nengxiong Wang, “How Did Czarist Russia Carry Out Its Aggression Against China?”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 159, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C 1:
      In 1848, Russian Senior Naval Captain Nevelskoiy and his military transport ship set sail to invade China's Heilongjiang River estuary and the Sakhalin island. In 1850, Miaojie on the Heilongjiang River estuary was forcibly occupied, turned into a stronghold for aggression and renamed Nikolayevsk after the czar. In April 1853, Czar Nicholas I brazenly ordered the invasion and occupation of China's Sakhalin island.
    • 1982, Bai Shouyi, editor, An Outline History of China, 1st edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 487:
      More than 7,000 people of Hailanpao and the sixty-four villages east of the Heilongjiang River were murdered, burned to death or drowned in the river.
    • 2005 November 27, David Lague, “China apologizes to Russia for spill”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 March 2023, Asia Pacific‎:
      The Songhua is a major tributary of the Heilongjiang River, which crosses the border near the Russian city of Khabarovsk.
    • 2019 April 6, Nathan Gibson, “One of China’s smallest ethnic minority groups, the Oroqen, is in danger of disappearing”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 6, 2019, Long Reads‎:
      Hunting was central to Oroqen culture, with kills shared among families. The semi-nomadic people lived along the banks of the Heilongjiang (“black dragon river”), a long, dark, snaking body of water forming the border between northeast China and Russia, in tepee-like structures called djiu, which were built of birch bark.

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See also

Province-level divisions of the People's Republic of China in English (layout · text)
Provinces: Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan (claimed) · Yunnan · Zhejiang
Autonomous regions: Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang
Municipalities: Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing
Special administrative regions: Hong Kong · Macau

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