Suihua

Suihua 绥化市
Prefecture-level city
Suihua (red) in Heilongjiang (orange)
Suihua Location of the city centre in Heilongjiang
Coordinates: 46°38′N 126°59′E / 46.633°N 126.983°E / 46.633; 126.983
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Heilongjiang
County-level divisions	10
Government
• Type	Prefecture-level city
• CPC Suihua Secretary	Zhang Jingchuan (张晶川)
• Mayor	Wang Jinhui (王金会)
Area
• Prefecture-level city	34,964.17 km2 (13,499.74 sq mi)
• Urban	2,756.4 km2 (1,064.3 sq mi)
• Metro	2,756.4 km2 (1,064.3 sq mi)
Population (2010 census)
• Prefecture-level city	5,416,439
• Density	150/km2 (400/sq mi)
• Urban	877,114
• Urban density	320/km2 (820/sq mi)
• Metro	877,114
• Metro density	320/km2 (820/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	152000
Area code(s)	0455
Licence plates	黑M
ISO 3166-2	cn-23-12
Climate	Dwa
Website	suihua.gov.cn

Suihua
"Suihua", as written in Chinese calligraphy
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	绥化
Traditional Chinese	綏化
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Suīhuà
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᠰᡠᡳᡥᠠ
Russian name
Russian	Суйхуа

Suihua (Chinese: 绥化; pinyin: Suīhuà) is a prefecture-level city in west-central Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, adjacent to Yichun to the east, Harbin, the provincial capital, to the south, Daqing to the west and Heihe to the north. It has 5,418,453 inhabitants at the 2010 census, of whom 877,114 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Beilin District.

Suihua's history can be stretched back to over 10,000 years ago. As early as in the Paleolithic Age, human beings started living in this area. The Sushen people, the ancestors of the Manchu, inhabited in this region During the Xia Dynasty and Shang Dynasty. During the Yuan Dynasty, agriculture developed rapidly in Suihua.

Suihua has been inhabited by many ethnic minority groups, such as Mongols and Koreans since the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Period, Suihua was known as Bei Tuanlinzi(北团林子) during the early days of its administrative history in 1885.

Suihua is approved to become a prefecture-level city in 1999, and officially designated a prefecture-level city on June 14, 2000.

Suihua is located in the northern part of the Songnen Plain, and situated in the central part of Heilongjiang Province. Bordering prefectures are:

The city is located at latitude 45° 03′–48° 02′ N and longitude 124° 13′–128° 30' E. The total area of the city is 35,211 square kilometres (13,595 sq mi).

Suihua has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dwa), with long, bitterly cold, but dry winters, and humid, very warm summers. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −20.9 °C (−5.6 °F) in January to 22.3 °C (72.1 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 2.78 °C (37.0 °F). A majority of the annual precipitation occurs in July and August alone.