Hunchun

Hunchun is a county-degree city in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, a long way jap Jilin province. It borders North Korea and Russia, has over 250,000 inhabitants, and covers 5,145 square kilometers. It turned into capital of Balhae or Bohai Kingdom between 785 to 793 as "Dongyang". The city's call Hunchun comes from the Manchu language that means borderland. The metropolis and the village Fangchuan is located near the point of junction of the borders of China, Russia, and North Korea; provided with an remark platform, it is a popular traveller enchantment.

Since the early 1990s, the Chinese authorities invested lots in reworking Hunchun into a regional monetary center, thanks in massive part to the influence of the former Jilin governor Wang Zhongyu, whose work with Zhu Rongji allowed him to emerge as the primary head of China's State Economic and Trade Commission. On 9 March 1992 the Chinese parliament accepted to set up Hunchun Border Economic Cooperation Zone. The national government and Jilin provincial government have invested in succession over 4 billion yuan in Hunchun through the Nineties.