Definition of "Taching"

That there was no 'oil boom town' atmosphere at Taching, no bars, brothels or night clubs doing a roaring trade as technicians and oil drillers with fat pay cheques swaggered in from lonely drilling sites for a long week-end, obviously did not surprise us. That concept of 'Great Celebration' left for Taiwan with the Kuomintang. It was difficult at first to locate Taching city - an oilfield capital.

1976, Wilfred Burchett, China: The Quality of Life‎, Penguin Books, page 114

Taching is supposed to be accounting for about a third of the total mainland oil output.

1973 April 29, “Red petroleum output is inadequate”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XIV, number 16, Taipei, page 2

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