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Harbin, also known as Ice City, is the core city of prefecture-level cities, provincial capitals, sub-provincial cities, mega-cities and Harbin-Changsha urban agglomeration under the jurisdiction of Heilongjiang Province, an important central city in the northeast of China and an important national manufacturing base approved by the State Council. As of 202 1, Harbin has 9 municipal districts, 7 counties and 2 county-level cities with a total area of 53,076.4 square kilometers. By the end of 2022, the total registered population of Harbin was 9.395 million.

Harbin is located in the northeast of China, the center of Northeast Asia. It is the political, economic and cultural center of northern China. Known as the Pearl of the Eurasian Continental Bridge, the first international comprehensive transportation hub of the Eurasian Continental Bridge and the air corridor, the starting point of the Hadaqi Industrial Corridor, the central city of development and opening up along the border, the central city of Northeast Asia and the "central city of cooperation with Russia".

Harbin is a famous national historical and cultural city, and the birthplace of "one country, two dynasties", namely the Jin Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. The first capital of the Jin Dynasty was located in Acheng, and Timur, the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, was born in Yilan, from which the Jin and Yuan cultures spread throughout the northeast and carried forward the whole country. Harbin is an internationally famous ice and snow culture and ice and snow tourist city, known as "Moscow in the East" and "Little Paris in the East". Harbin is a national civilized city and an international wetland city.

The cultural capital of East Asia, the top ten ice and snow tourist cities in China, was awarded the title of "Music City" by the United Nations. In 2022, the Chinese Olympic Committee awarded Harbin the "Olympic champion city" commemorative trophy. In 2022, Harbin achieved a regional GDP of 549.065438 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.5%. Harbin has a long history. This is a city that has never had a wall.

As early as the late Paleolithic period of 22,000 years ago, there were already human activities here. About 5000 years ago, Harbin entered the Neolithic Age. About 3000 years ago, in the late Shang Dynasty, Harbin entered the Bronze Age, belonging to the distribution area of Baijinbao culture, the earliest ancient civilized country in Heilongjiang Province.