Definition of "Heilungkiang"

Mutankiang, the second city of Heilungkiang, is the industrial center of the East Manchurian uplands.

1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map : A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 229

In probing this intriguing question, Mrs. Sargent outlines the unusual leadership change which took place in Heilungkiang on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. During the winter of 1965 to 1966, Provincial CCP First Secretary Ouyang Ch'in disappeared from public view and, in May 1966, he was replaced by P'an Fu-sheng who had a strikingly un-Maoist record.

1971, The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces‎, Harvard University Press, page 4

According to an intelligence report, the social problems derived from retired soldiers were the consequence of a Heilungkiang incident in late 1980. Almost all the state-run farms in Heilungkiang Province were deliberately destroyed in that incident by retired servicemen in protest against being maltreated by the Peiping regime.

1982 February 14, “Unemployment problem”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXII, number 6, Taipei, page 3

Mainland China's petroleum industry enjoyed spectacular growth between 1960 and 1978, when the Taching (Daqing) oilfield in Heilungkiang (Heilongjiang) Province began to operate on a large-scale basis.

1993, Bih-jaw Lin, James T. Myers, editors, Forces for Change in Contemporary China‎, University of South Carolina Press, page 274

Trafficking by both Soviet officials and exiled White Russians in the Far East was a consequence of the disintegration of the Romanov Empire. The population of Harbin, the chief city of Heilungkiang (Heilongjiang) province in central Manchuria and strategic centre of the Manchurian railway system, rose from about 40,000 inhabitants in 1911 to 332, 000 twenty years later.

2002, Richard Davenport-Hines, The Pursuit of Oblivion‎, W. W. Norton & Company, page 277

Manzhouli is about 1,000 km (700 miles) north of Beijing, China's capital. It was on the former Chinese Eastern Railway (CER) in what was then known as northern Manchuria and, until China's Communist Party set up the People's Republic in 1949, was part of Heilungkiang Province.

2011, Colin Garratt, The Illustrated Guide to Locomotives of the World‎, Singapore: Anness Publishing Ltd., page 83