Harbir china biography history wikipedia

Harbin, originally named with a Manchu word meaning "a place for drying fishing nets", grew from a small rural settlement on the Songhua River to become the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang Province. Nowdays the city serves as a key political, economic, scientific, cultural and communications hub in Northeast China. Later, Harbin became a birthplace of the Qing Dynasty.

Harbin city population

However, the region of Harbin was still largely rural with over ten villages and about 30, people until the s. From to , Harbin grew from a small village into the modern city due to the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway financed by Russian Empire and was extended to connect the Trans-Siberian Railway. After Russian arrival, several thousand nationals from 33 countries, including the United States, Germany, and France moved to Harbin.

Sixteen countries established consulates to serve their nationals, who established several hundred industrial, commercial and banking companies. The city had a Russian school system, as well as publishers of Russian language newspapers and journals. After , Dr. Abraham Kaufman played a leading role in Harbin's large Russian Jewish community.

Japan invaded Manchuria outright after the Mukden Incident in September The Japanese completed occupation of Harbin soon and established the puppet state of Manchukuo.

Harbin kdrama

Then Harbin became a major operations base for the infamous medical experimenters of Unit , who killed people of all ages and ethnicities. The Pacification of Manchukuo began, as volunteer armies continued to fight the Japanese. Under the instruction of Marxism in , worker and student movements of the anti-imperialism and patriotic struggle were organized in Harbin and led by Zhou Enlai, Li Dazhao, Qu Qiubai, Lu Zhanglong and more other comrades.