Hunchun

Hunchun 珲春市 · 훈춘시
County-level city
A street in Hunchun
Hunchun Location in Jilin province
Coordinates: 42°52′N 130°22′E / 42.867°N 130.367°E / 42.867; 130.367Coordinates: 42°52′N 130°22′E / 42.867°N 130.367°E / 42.867; 130.367
Country	China
Province	Jilin
Prefecture	Yanbian
Seat	Xin'an Subdistrict
Area
• Total	4,938 km2 (1,907 sq mi)
Elevation	41 m (135 ft)
Population
• Total	220,000
• Density	45/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	133300

Hunchun
Simplified Chinese	珲春市
Traditional Chinese	琿春市
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Húnchūn Shì
Chinese Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl	훈춘시
Transcriptions Revised Romanization Honchun-si McCune–Reischauer Honch’un-si
South Korean name
Hangul	훈춘 시
Transcriptions Revised Romanization Hunchun Si McCune–Reischauer Hunch'un Si

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Húnchūn Shì

Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	Honchun-si
McCune–Reischauer	Honch’un-si

Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	Hunchun Si
McCune–Reischauer	Hunch'un Si

Hunchun is a county-level city in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, far eastern Jilin province, Northeast China. It borders North Korea (North Hamgyong province) and Russia (Primorsky Krai), has over 250,000 inhabitants, and covers 5,145 square kilometers. It was capital of Balhae/Bohai Kingdom between 785-793 as "Dongyang". The city's name Hunchun comes from the Manchu language meaning borderland.

The city is located near the point of junction of the borders of China, Russia, and North Korea; provided with an observation platform, it is a popular tourist attraction.

Hunchun has four subdistricts, four towns, and five townships.

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Since the early 1990s, the Chinese government invested a lot in transforming Hunchun into a regional economic center. On 9 March 1992 the Chinese parliament approved to set up Hunchun Border Economic Cooperation Zone. The national government and Jilin provincial government have invested in succession over four billion yuan in Hunchun through the 1990s.

On 16 March 2013, a joint agreement to export textiles to North Korea was announced. The textiles would be made into up to 8,000 shirts in North Korea and exported back to China.

Hunchun Border Economic Cooperation Zone was approved to be national-level border economic cooperation zone in 1992, with a planning area of 24 km². In 2002 and 2001, Hunchun Export Processing Zone and Huichun Sino-Russia Trade Zone was set up in it. Being located in the junction of China, Russia, and Korea, it enjoys a strategic location. The infrastructure is available. The city focuses on the development of sea food processing, electronic product manufacture, bio-pharmacy, textile industry and other industries.

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