Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, is located in the belt within 125°42′E to 130°10′E and 44°04′N to 46°40′N and situated in the northeast of China and in the south of Heilongjiang Province, the main terrain of which is flat, low-lying, however, in the east 10 counties directly under which there grow lots of mountains and uplands.

    Songhua river winds through the central part of the city, the southeast of which adheres to the branch-uplands of Zhangguangcai mountain, the north of which's Xiaoxing-an mountain, in which the mountains' altitude's not high, the rivers intervein vertically and horizontally, the plain's far-flung. Varied rivers in Harbin all belong to Songhua river and Mudan river water systems, the main parts of which are comprised of Songhua river, Hulan river, A-shi river, lalin river, Mangniu river, Mayan river, East shining Pearl river, Ni river, Piao river, Feiketu river, Shaoling river, Wuyue river, Weiken river and so on. The four seasons of Harbin are so obvious and Winter's comparatively long in contrast with the three others' transient and the climate is cold and dry. Summer's transient and hot with the abundance of rainfall which mainly concentrates on from June to Sep. and configurates more than 70% of the whole year's rainfall. The temperature in Spring and Autumn of Harbin is changeable and two seasons are transitional ones with big wind blowing.

    Harbin possesses of the luxuriant mineral resources, 63 varied categories of mineral resources, the explored 25 species of which are utilized for industry. Coal, gas, copper, zinc, constructed-made ores and mineral water.... twenty species of mineral play a crucial role in Heilongjiang Provincial Economics prosperity. Meanwhile, Harbin's forestland is mainly distributed over east mountainous area, northwest foot of Zhangguangcai mountain, the south ramp of Xiaoxing-an mountain.. Thereinto, there're so many rare species of trees, especially red pine which is well known for its high grade texture all over China and oversea. Besides, such as, apple trees, grape trees and so on, these temperate trees still grow over here. On the other hand, Harbin is affluent in vegetation resources, the various species of which mainly contains alga vegetation and moss vegetation bearing the portraits of concentrated scattering and high economic profits. Such rare medical materials as wild Panax, tuckahoe, earthworm, amboyna and etc., are famous in the internal and external sphere. Another series of vegetation to mention is surely wild edible vegetation with the inclusion of fern, tender bud, a mass of filbert mushroom, agarics and etc.. One more species of vegetation is more than 130 sorts of wild flowers adorning the blackland Chipewyan. There are more than 40 rare animals like Sibera Tiger and bear, and other beasts and birds forest. The amount of fish in fresh water is plentiful. More than 40 series of fish flowing Songhua river and the branches in Harbin is of importance of eating: Heilongjiang Carp, silk crucian, dog fish, red eel and etc.  >>

Administration Division

    Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, is the core of politics, economics, culture, science and tech. and transportation in the northeast of China. 

    On 15th, Aug., 2006, through the sanction of the State Council, Harbin took the modulation of administration division into process: to cancel Dongli district, and Xiangfang district to rebuild new Xiangfang district; to change A-cheng city to A-cheng district; to regulate Yongyuan county and Juyuan county into the domination of A-cheng district into the rule of Daowai district. After adjustment, Harbin governs Daowai, Daoli, Nangang,Xiangfang, Pingfang, Songbei, Hulan,A-cheng, eight districts and Bin county , Bayan, Yilan, Yanshou, Mulan, Tonghe, Fangzheng, seven counties, Wuchang, Two-city, Shangzhi, three prefectural cities, and the total area of city is 53,068 square kilometers, municipal area of which is 7.086 square kilometers , the population in the municipal area of which is 4.6424 million people.>> 

    Harbin, lying on the fertile Songliao plain, the bank of Songhua River, is an outstanding anti-torridity interest, a charming and gentle, unique and featuring city abounding in European scenery as well, especially attracting numberless tourists from the internal and external places. Beautiful Songhua River winds through the city like a ploychrome belt, and elegant Sun island like a shining pearl is enchased on the north bank of Songhua River. 

    Lofty anti-flood Cenotaph, Songhuajiang Expressway Bridge spanning north and south, and magnificent Worker Stadium adorn the graceful Harbin as a coquettish fairy. Harbin might holds the main features of ice and snow resources and anti-hot travel, the ice lantern in Zhaolin Garden and snow sculptures on the Sun Island and ice and snow world of which take the prestigious reputation all over the world. What's more, Two-dargon mountain, Song-mountain and internal famous skiing place: Yabli Skiing Plaza, have nowadays become the ideal spots of sightseeing and traveling. In the Northeast Tiger Garden and zoo live so many varied species of rare animals; multitudinous parks in downtown so classic and elegant...

    Harbin strives vigorously to exploiture the traveling resources, and presents ice and snow travel, hunting travel, folk custom travel, anti-sunstroke travel, Jin dynasty's culture travel and some other items to the tourists. Ice and snow travel's heat brought along the development of seasonal travel items, such as, drift and ecologic scenery travel, city leisure travel and etc. Ice and snow festival, ice and snow world, ice lantern garden party, Yabli and longevity skiing squares, all these winter travel brands are well known around domestic and oversea world.

    Ice and snow tour: Ice and snow tour has acquired the supreme quality of Harbin, which becomes one of four domestic tour hot lines around Spring festival and becomes might one of thirty-five trump products presented by National Tourism Administration to the world as well. 

    Hunting tour: Characteristic tour, mainly composed of Yuquan hunting square, is a hunting tour line of stretching towards Wulong National hunting plaza in Tonghe county. 

    Folk custom tour: It is a designed activity for showing minorities' traditional customs in Heilongjiang to the travelers. Hot lines as following: 
    A line: Harbin---- A-cheng ( Man race village ) -------Hulan ( farm cottages)
    B line: Harbin---- Heihe(e-lunchun race)—tongjiang(Hezhe race )--- Man race autonomic village in A-cheng 
    Anti-hot tour: Harbin summer holds the great difference in temperature between day and night, pleasant cool, and it is a famous anti-hot interest of china. Anti-hot vacation tour takes the Sun Island, two-dragon mountain as the main scenic spots with the assistance of Changling Lake, west countryside fish pool and the surrounding vacation area. Song-mountain, Yuquan hunting plaza, Yabli windmill village are also good traveling places to visit. 

    Jin dynasty's culture tour: Probe into Jin dynasty's culture as the main contents of tour activity fabricates Jin dynasty's culture tour. Huining court site in A-cheng region is the cradle of Jin dynasty's culture of china. The site takes on unique exploiture profits of tour. 
    The city of Jin dynasty's culture tour has been one of seven trump tour products in the 21st century of Harbin, and the city has stretched to Mulan and other Jin ancient places from the beginning of A-cheng. 

    With the possession of the tradition of being open to the external, Harbin, during the great practice of constructing Chinese feature socialism, will solidify collaboration, expand communication, and deepen the friendship, forthcome hand by hand with the internal and external friends, provided by more exoteric attitude and more outstanding investment environment.  >>

    The style and genre of architectures in Harbin presents the unique and outstanding, distinguishing features in contrast with the other cities in China. Not only a variety of European architectures but also quite traditional Chinese classic architectures are there. Since the reform and open, to have constructed a mass of modern architectures made the city unfolding oriental architectures genre with west. 

    All the tourists, on visiting Harbin, could gain the feeling that he has already been put into the architectures museum. 

    If you take a walk in Center street, you could see many Gothic, baroque, Byzantinesque, eclecticism, new art tide and avant-modernism and other different genres of architectures on the both sides of the hundred old street paved by square stones, which seems to tell the story and people in Harbin. 

    If you go to cantonal area by bus, Harbin Engineering University, Confucius Temple, Friendship Palace, Mechanics Institute, No.3 Middle School and so on, all these red-brick and dark green tile, carved balks and painted pillars constitute Chinese traditional architectures, which sometimes greet our eyes.   

    If you overview Harbin, you will see row upon row of high buildings at your feet and various characteristic residences, and sun plaza in Hongbo Square glittering, Songhua river as a flowing multicolor belt floating through the black soil......

    Architectures in Harbin like some freezed notes, bear European medieval romance and Chinese traditional elegance and modern zeal.  >>

    Harbin is the center of Heilongjiang province economy development and also is an integrated city with industry as the principal part of economy and all three industries general booming. 

    During 'the first five and the second five year-plan', Harbin engendered industrial economics framework, the main body of which was comprised of large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, the core of which was heavy industry, and had become an important industrial base of our country. At that time, the main products accounted to more than 3,000 varieties, covering the whole country, remotely exported to over 100 countries and areas. Thereinto, electricity station equipments, facility and measure, areoplane and engine, linen textile, magnalium artifactitious products, exactitude meter, axletree, cable, relay protection sets and other items, dominated the top status in China. 

    Since the implement of reform and open, Harbin had increased the stride of economics configuration modulation, meanwhile, pharmaceuticals, vehicles, vivers, electronic information and other high new-tech industries were progressing at full speed and formed new industrial situation. During ' the tenth five plan', the target of industrial development, was to accelerate the industrialized process with informationization, to arduously struggle to cultivate electronic information, vehicles, vivers, pharmaceuticals, four pillar industries, and to develop furnishment produce, environmental protection, wielding, new materials, biological project …etc. five preponderant industries, to the largest extent, with actively adjustment and alteration of mechanism, textile, metallurgy, construct material, petroleum chemistry, light industry, six traditional industries, and they fabricated new industrial economics situation. 

    Reform and open has boosted the fast growing of Harbin tertiary industry which plays a more and more prominent function and status in Chinese National Economy. During 'the tenth five plan', with tightly orientation of serving for National Economy and society development, the tertiary industry in Harbin will continue to emphasize on developing foreign trade, finance insurance, real estate, municipal transportation, tourism and scenery and technological education, information consultation, culture and sanitation and other social enterprises, so as to configurate perfect marketing economy system and satisfy the economy progress and citizen lives'necessity. 

    During 'the tenth five year plan', Harbin agriculture and rural economics would focus on solidifying the agriculture basis and augmenting peasant's income, and regulate agriculture framework.. Harbin still ameliorated traditional agriculture production pattern, stabilized foodstuff and enhanced animal husbandry, extruded to develop molar profits agriculture with the emphases on green agriculture. We persisted in prospering agriculture by technology and extended advanced proper techniques, implemented excellent seed project, and set up modern agriculture technological region and techno-exemplification base. At the same time, it actively facilitated agriculture synthetic exploitation and the concerned department constructed fourteen green-food base chains in the whole city in order to accelerate agriculture industrialization process and promote rural economics fully booming. 

    In 2006, the total value of regional production reached to 209.4 billion, which increased at 13.5% by contrast with the last year and averagely increased by 13.9% that achieved the target of being double on the basis of 2000 year's budget; the gross income of finance average budget reached to 19.23 billion which rose by 12.5% compared with the last, increased by 13% annually, in which local fiscal average budget revenue accounted to 11.83 billion, increasing at 14.7% in contrast with the last and augmenting at 15% annually; the investment of capital asserts amounted to 81 billion which rose by 26.7% compared with the last, increased by 22.4% annually; the gross retail income of social consumable amounted to 89.54 billion which increased at 13.5% by contrast with the last year and annually increased by 12.5%. Municipal synthetic power has entered into the top ten of the whole country. >>