Harbin recently announced limits on the burning of straw residue in an area with a 10-kilometer radius around the city, and for 5-km on both sides of major highways this autumn and winter, the major season for straw burning in the Northeast.
The number of people visiting the city of Harbin, in Heilongjiang province for overnight stays during the week-long National Day holiday, or "Golden Week”, reached 378,400 this year, up 12.52 percent from the same last year period, a local news portal has reported.
The Confucian Temple in the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province held a grand ceremony to commemorate the 2,566th birthday of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, on Sept 28, with hundreds of people turning up, from ordinary folk to experts to followers of Confucianism, and everybody else.
When the Annual Report on Development of World Tourism Cities came out recently, it had the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, at 15th place for support for tourism development, and 8th for support for human resource.
The city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, has been confirmed as a permanent rotating Chinese host of the China-Russia Expo, which will be held in the city this year, Oct 12 - 16, the organizer said at a recent press conference.
When the Wanda Realm Hotel in the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province decided to celebrate its second anniversary, on Sept 24, it drew more than 300 local officials, businesspeople and academics to its banquet, along with a foreign band and the hotel employees performed a mini concert, a laser...
The travel time from the city of Harbin to the city of Hunchun, in Jilin province has been cut to just over 5 hours thanks to the high-speed train line that opened on Sept 20, with tickets costing 299 yuan ($47) for a first-class seat and 224.5 yuan for second class, local media reported.
Over the past two years, as the center of the Heilongjiang economic belt, the capital city of Harbin has been actively involved in the construction of the Heilongjiang Land and Maritime Silk Road Economic Belt, part of the Belt and Road Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013.
Rail freight through Russia boosts trade along ancient route. Pan Jizhong, who runs a company that manages international freight forwarders, recently was busy exporting containers from Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang province, to South Korea.
Harbin is trying hard to develop its smart manufacturing with sensors, intelligent control systems, industrial robots and automated production lines, according to local authorities, who say they are selecting candidates for the first pilot projects.
