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General Introduction
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Lying in the northernmost part of northeast China, Heilongjlang Province is the province with the longest winters and -- with its vast expanses of flatland and wide areas of fertile black soil--one of China's major commodity grain growers. Named after its largest river, Heilongjiang has a total area of more than 460,000 square kilometres, of which, like Liaoning Province, 60 per cent are mountains, 10 per cent rivers and 30 per cent farmland. Its land area includes the country's largest oil reserve, 2,500 million tons. Of its population of 32.04 million, 31.5 per cent live in the cities and 68.5 per cent in the countryside. There are 1.4 million people from minority nationalities including the Manchus, Koreans, Huis, Mongolians, Daurs, Hezhens, Oroqens and Ewenkis. The bulk of Heilongjiang's population lives in the Songnen Plain and the mining and industrial cities.
(china.org.cn)
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