Heilongjiang

name

Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黑龍江 /黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng).

1. A province in northeastern China. Capital: Harbin.

   “Zhang Zuo-lin (1873-1928), a former bandit chief who joined the army, was appointed governor of Moukden by Yuan Shi-kai in exchange for services rendered. Using political intrigue and military pressure, he got Heilongjiang (1917) and Jilin (1919) under his control, thus becoming master of the three provinces of Manchuria.”

   “Yu Changwu from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang has urged the ruling Communist Party to honor its “revolutionary ideals and pledges” and hand land back to the farmers.”

2. Alternative form of Heilong Jiang, the Amur River: a major river in the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China.

   “In 1848, Russian Senior Naval Captain Nevelskoiy and his military transport ship set sail to invade China's Heilongjiang [Amur-river] River estuary and the Sakhalin island. In 1850, Miaojie on the Heilongjiang River estuary was forcibly occupied, turned into a stronghold for aggression and renamed Nikolayevsk after the czar. In April 1853, Czar Nicholas I brazenly ordered the invasion and occupation of China's Sakhalin island.”

   “More than 7,000 people of Hailanpao and the sixty-four villages east of the Heilongjiang River were murdered, burned to death or drowned in the river.”