Daqing
大庆市 | |
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Coordinates (Daqing municipal government): 46°35′20″N 125°06′14″E / 46.589°N 125.104°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Heilongjiang |
County-level divisions | 9 |
Government | |
• Type | Prefecture-level city |
• CPC Daqing Secretary | Han Lihua (韩立华) |
• Mayor | He Zhonghua (何忠华) |
Area | |
• Prefecture-level city | 22,161 km2 (8,556 sq mi) |
• Urban | 5,107 km2 (1,972 sq mi) |
• Metro | 2,734.6 km2 (1,055.8 sq mi) |
Elevation | 149 m (489 ft) |
Population (2020 census)[1] | |
• Prefecture-level city | 2,781,562 |
• Density | 130/km2 (330/sq mi) |
• Urban | 1,754,655 |
• Urban density | 340/km2 (890/sq mi) |
• Metro | 1,574,389 |
• Metro density | 580/km2 (1,500/sq mi) |
GDP | |
• Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 298.4 billion US$ 47.9 billion |
• Per capita | CN¥ 107,419 US$ 17,247 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 163000 |
Area code | 0459 |
ISO 3166 code | CN-HL-06 |
Licence plates | 黑E |
Climate | Dwa |
Website | www |
Daqing | |||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 大庆 | ||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 大慶 | ||||||||
Postal | Taching | ||||||||
Literal meaning | Great Celebration | ||||||||
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Mongolian name | |||||||||
Mongolian Cyrillic | Дачин хот | ||||||||
Mongolian script | ᠳᠠᠴᠢᠩ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ | ||||||||
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Manchu name | |||||||||
Manchu script | ᡩᠠᡴᠠᠩ ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ | ||||||||
Romanization | Daking hoton |
Daqing (simplified Chinese: 大庆; traditional Chinese: 大慶; pinyin: Dàqìng) is a prefecture-level city in the west of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. The name literally means "Great Celebration" and refers to the tenth anniversary of the PRC.[2]: 2 Daqing is known as the "Oil Capital of China" and has experienced a phenomenal boom since oil was discovered at the Daqing Oil Field in 1959.[3]
Its population was 2,781,562 as of the 2020 census, of whom 1,574,389 lived in the built-up (or metro) area in four out of the total of five urban districts: Sartu, Longfeng, Ranghulu and Honggang.