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unusual facts about Wuchang, Heilongjiang


Audrey Meadows

Her parents, the Rev. Francis James Meadows Cotter and his wife, the former Ida Miller Taylor, had been Episcopal missionaries in Wu-ch'ang, China, where her three elder siblings were born.


Battle of Yangxia

The battle was the largest military engagement of the Xinhai Revolution and was waged in Hankou and Hanyang, which along with Wuchang collectively form the tri-cities of Wuhan in central China.

Cafe Astoria

It is located in the Zhongzheng District of Taipei, Taiwan on WuChang Street across from the City God Temple.

China Health and Nutrition Survey

The study population is drawn from the nine provinces of Guangxi, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Liaoning, and Shandong.

China Huadian Corporation

Huadian Energy Company Limited (华电B股 SHA:900937, B share) is a thermal power subsidiary based in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.

Duan Zhigui

Born in Hefei, Anhui, Duan gained the post of Heilongjiang governor in the late Qing dynasty and between 1912-13 he was governor of Chahar, and the military governor of Hubei between 1914–15, as well as Military and Civil governor of Fengtian in 1915-16.

G10 Suifenhe–Manzhouli Expressway

Currently, the expressway is complete in its entirety in Heilongjiang Province, from Suifenhe to just northwest of Qiqihar.

Gentiana triflora

Gentiana triflora (三花龙胆 san hua long dan in Chinese, called Clustered Gentian in English) is a tall, flowering perennial plant in the genus Gentiana native to higher-elevation (600-1000 m) meadows and forests of China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol), Mongolia, Eastern Russia, Korea and Japan.

Hailar District

The Mohe-Huma-Hailar triangle between northern Heilongjiang and Northeastern Inner Monglia, which almost equivalent to China's subarctic climate zone, suffers the most severe cold winter in China.

Henan Airlines Flight 8387

Henan Airlines Flight 8387 (VD 8387) was a flight from Harbin Taiping International Airport to the new Yichun Lindu Airport, both located in Heilongjiang province, China.

Higher education in China

After Ziqiang was founded in Wuchang, not only courses in foreign languages was taught, courses in science (chemical and mining courses starting from 1896) and business (business course starting from the very beginning) were also developed at the school.

HMU

Harbin Medical University, public university in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Huadian Energy Company Limited

Huadian Energy Company Limited (SHA:900937 华电能源股份有限公司) is a Shanghai B share listed subsidiary of Huadian Group based in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.

Huangshi

Many of the passenger trains traveling on the Wuhan–Jiujiang Railway between Wuhan (Wuchang and Wuhan Stations) and the points southeast make stops at the Huangshi and Yangxin stations.

Khingan

Lesser Khingan, mountain range in the northeastern section of Heilongjiang, China

Liu Binyan

People or Monsters (《人妖之间》), about a corrupt official in the northern Chinese province of Heilongjiang named Wang Shouxin, created a sensation when it was published in 1979, and became a central element in the effort in China to reflect on and understand the course of Chinese social development, particularly over the course of the Cultural Revolution.

Mary Elizabeth Wood

In 1899, she went to visit her youngest brother, Robert E. Wood, who was stationed as a missionary for the Protestant Episcopal Church in Wuchang, China.

Nenjiang

Nen River, one of the major tributaries to the Songhua River in Heilongjiang

PLZ-45

The PLZ-45 or Type 88 is a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer designed by Su Zhezi of 674 Factory, and developed by Norinco, 123 Factory (Heilongjiang Hua’an Industry Group Company), 127 Factory (Tsitsihar Heping Machine Shop), 674 Factory (Harbin First Machine Manufacture Limited Company) and Beijing Institute of Technology in the early 1990s for the export market.

Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge

In November 1931, the acting governor of Heilongjiang province General Ma Zhanshan chose to disobey the Kuomintang government's ban on further resistance to the Japanese invasion and attempted to prevent Japanese forces from crossing into Heilongjiang province by defending a strategic railway bridge across the Nen River near Jiangqiao.

Salix matsudana

pseudomatsudana, found only in the provinces of Hebei, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning.

Scouts of China

Following the birth of the Republic of China, the first Scout troop was organized by Reverend Yen Chia-lin in Wuchang on February 25, 1912 and the Scouting movement spread rapidly all over the country.

Sun Hao

He then also, believing in a prophecy that the imperial aura had moved from Yang Province (揚州; covering present-day Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and southern Jiangsu and Anhui) to Jing Province (荊州; covering present-day Hubei and Hunan) and that Jing forces would defeat Yang forces, undertook a costly move of the capital from Jianye to Wuchang (武昌; present-day Ezhou, Hubei).

Syphon Filter 2

The Agency was trying to sell the Syphon Filter virus to a renegade Chinese general named Shi Hao, attempting to lead a rebellion in the Heilongjiang province, a conflict which will provoke the Russian military into action, due to this region being contested by Russia and the People's Republic of China.

Taikang

Taikang, Dorbod County (泰康镇), town in Dorbod Mongol Autonomous County, Heilongjiang, China

Trams in China

Harbin city in Heilongjiang province had a system from 1927 with 8 lines and about 40 trams.

Type 7103 DSRV

The 701st Institute and Wuchang Shipbuilding Factory jointly launched a comprehensive modernization program for all Type 7103 DSRVs, which lasted from 1994 through 1996.

Type 90 240 mm railway gun

It was redeployed to Manchukuo in 1941, and based in the Hulin area of Heilongjiang, as part of the defenses against the Soviet Union, where it remained for the duration of World War II.

Type 99

Additionally, from 1995 to 1996, three prototypes underwent arctic climate tests in Tahe County, Heilongjiang.

Wang Xiankui

He was transferred yet again in August 2010 to Heilongjiang province, where he was appointed Acting Governor, succeeding Li Zhanshu.

In March 2013 he was promoted to Communist Party Chief of Heilongjiang, succeeding Ji Bingxuan, who became a Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress.

Wuchang District

After 1949, the more urban part of the Wuchang County was absorbed into the new Wuhan City and was administratively partitioned into Wuchang, Qingshan and Hongshan districts, while the remaining, mostly rural, southern part retained the name of Wuchang County.

Wuchang Uprising

Just one week after the start of the Wuchang uprising, Li Yuanhong (黎元洪) made a sacrifice to Heaven, Earth and the Yellow Emperor.

Wuhan University School of Information Management

The predecessor of SIM was Boone Library School at Wuchang, which was founded by Mary Elizabeth Wood and Samuel T. Y. Seng in March 1920.

Yilan

Yilan County, Heilongjiang (依兰县), a county of central Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China

Zhili–Anhui War

In April 1920, while visiting a memorial service at Baoding for soldiers who died in Hunan, one-time presidential-candidate Cao Kun added more warlords to the anti-Anhui clique alliance, including the rulers of Hubei, Henan, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Zhili.


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