Jiamusi

Jiamusi is a prefecture-degree city in japanese Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. Located along the center and decrease reaches of the Songhua River, it faces Russia's Khabarovsk Krai throughout the Ussuri River and the Amur River. In 2007 Jiamusi had a GDP of RMB 34.1 billion with a 14.3% boom charge. Its population became 2,552,097 on the 2010 census whom 881,711 lived within the built up place manufactured from four urban districts.

In 1720, Jiamusi turned into first named Giyamusi in the course of the Kangxi duration with the aid of the Nanai humans. The word Giyamusi firstly way Inn within the Manchu language. Because of the harsh climate and quick developing season, the vicinity of modern day Jiamusi City changed into largely uncultivated. Since the Qing government opened Manchuria for farming on the way to prevent the conquest of the region by way of Russia, Jiamusi evolved as a small buying and selling put up underneath the name Dongxing given that 1888.

When Han Chinese and Manchu settlers started to transport into the vicinity, Jiamusi have become the seat of a county management, under the call Huachuan in 1910. However, the county seat became moved to Haoli , which is set 30 miles to the north, after numerous unfavorable floods. After Xinhai Revolution, because the Han Chinese went on shifting in, the population of Jiamusi rose very rapidly. Jiamusi persisted to develop as a business middle.