Heilongjiang Province (Hei for short ) is situated on North-East China border area, covering an area of 460,000 square kilometers and with a population of 35.26 million.

Its topography is characterized by the plains interspersed with mountains, and the landscape inclining from north-west to south-east, and low-lying and flat on south-west and north-east. 

Located on northern part of North-East China Plain, Heilongjiang has the majority of its rivers belonging to the Heilongjiang River system. The Songhua River is the largest tributary in the Province.

It has a cold temperate to temperate and humid to semi-humid climate. It is abundant in forest and land resources. Its soil is fertile. Among minerals, coal, petroleum, gold, graphite etc. hold a key position in China. 

Heilongjiang is one of principal areas of land reclamation and cultivation in China. Its main crops include wheat, soybeans, beet, flax and sunflower which all occupy a significant place in China.

Heilongjiang is Chinas most important base of forestry, ranking No.1 in both timber reserve and production. The Greater and Lesser Xingan Mountains are its major forest area. 

The main industries comprise machine-building, coal, petroleum and timber processing, in addition to paper-making, beet-sugar refinery, petro-chemicals, flax-textiles, power-generating equipments, industrial boilers etc. Harbin, Qiqihaer, Jiamusi and Mudanjiang are its major industrial centers. Daqing is one of Chinas most important bases of petroleum industry.

The railway plays the major role in the provinces communication, and together with the highway, inland waterway, and air-flights forms an transport network radiating in all directions.

The boundless great plain, the magnificent forests, snow-bound mountains and the unique regional culture are all very impressive to tourists.

Recommended Scenic Spots

The Oriental Orthodox Church

The church is a Russian-style architecture, covering 396m2. It features heavy gate, high arched window, mural paintings on the internal walls, and belfry atop the church. Commonly called “lama platform”, the typical Russian-style building is designed for religious purpose. In 1950, a bungalow of over 200m2 was constructed on the east of the church by local garrison, used as a club.

Taiyang Island

Facing the busy urban area across the river, this famous scenic and resting spot is a sand bar embraced by lapping waters, edged by willow-lined embankments. Here leafy trees shade into different greens, flowers show off various colors, fragrant scents permeate the fresh air over undulating sand dunes that alternate with carpet-like lawns and flower beds.

Chinese Snow Township - Hailin split-blip tree farm

It is located within the boundaries of the Mudanjiang Hailin Forrest bureau, situating in the center-section of Zhangguangcai range. In the center, there are two peaks with the height more than 1,700 meters. The snow at the top of mountains never melts throughout years. The snow time reaches 7 months long a year. The thickest place of snow is nearly about two meters. The terrain here is unique and kept out of the wind. Every winter, the snow is under negative strength function; along with things, shapes differ in thousands of ways. The snow township twin-peak has become the fairy tale world which ice sculpture jade carves. People‘s Liberation Army "81" ski field is located in here. Photography master celebrities from different regions take photographs here.

In order to enable more people to appreciate the snow township beautiful scene, the twin-peak is at the hold of Hailin Forrest bureau. The national implementation of natural forest protection project has provided the extremely good opportunity. We have implemented the engineering to change the forest railroad for the highway with all one‘s strength. Altogether we have demolished the forest lines about 169.8 kilometers, completely widened the road. In the past, it takes 2 days time from Mudanjiang to the twin-peak resort, but now is just within 5 hours.