Daqing
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Daqing 大庆市 |
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Daqing Radio and Television Tower
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 Daqing City (red) in Heilongjiang (orange) |
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 Daqing
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| Coordinates: 46°35′N 125°00′E / 46.583°N 125.000°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Heilongjiang |
| County-level divisions | 9 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Prefecture-level city |
| • CPC Daqing Secretary | Han Xuejian (韩学键) |
| • Mayor | Xia Lihua (夏立华) |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 22,161 km2 (8,556 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 5,107 km2 (1,972 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,734.6 km2 (1,055.8 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 149 m (489 ft) |
| Population (2010 census) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 2,904,532 |
| • Density | 130/km2 (340/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,649,825 |
| • Urban density | 320/km2 (840/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,415,268 |
| • Metro density | 520/km2 (1,300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 163000 |
| Area code(s) | 0459 |
| Licence plates | 黑E |
| ISO 3166-2 | cn-23-06 |
| GDP (2010) | CNY 290.0 billion (35th) |
| - per capita | CNY 103,576 (5th) |
| Climate | Dwa |
| Website | http://www.daqing.gov.cn/ |
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"Daqing", as written in Chinese
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| Chinese name | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 大庆 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 大慶 | ||||||
| Postal | Taching | ||||||
| Literal meaning | Great Celebration | ||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | Дачин | ||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠳᠠᠴᠢᠩ | ||||||
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| Manchu script | ᡩᠠᡴᠠᠩ | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dàqìng |
Daqing (Chinese: 大庆; pinyin: Dàqìng; formerly romanized as Taching) is a prefecture-level city in the west of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. The name literally means "Great Celebration". Daqing is known as the Oil Capital of China and has experienced a phenomenal boom since oil was discovered there in 1959.
Its population was 2,963,458 at the 2010 PRC National Census, of whom 1,415,268 lived in the built-up area in 4 out of the total of 5 urban districts, i.e. (Sartu, Longfeng, Ranghulu and Honggang).
The region now known as Daqing Prefecture was a reasonably insignificant place until the Qing Dynasty, known only as an unsettled hunting ground of Dörbet Oirat tribes due to its wetland and prairies. The region began to grow slightly after Czarist Russia constructed the Chinese Eastern Railway (KVZhD) through the area in 1898. The railway has a station at Sartu in today's Sartu District. It was not until 1959 that oil was discovered in the region as part of the large scale oil exploration put into motion across the Northeast China Plain. The Daqing oilfield was discovered in the late 1950s, and drilling began in 1958. A town with the same name was founded in 1959 to house workers extracting oil and gas from the Daqing oilfield and to host industries which could take advantage of the energy and petrochemicals, shortly before the 10th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. The name Daqing literally means "Great Celebration". On 26 May 1960, Anda City was established at former Anda town (today's Anda City in Suihua prefecture), administering Daqing oilfield area. Five months later, the administrative organs of the oilfield relocated in Sartu. On 23 June 1964, the city was established Anda special administrative region, with Anda county administering its surrounding area. On 14 December 1979, the city was separated from Anda and was renamed Daqing after the oilfield.
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