Jixi
Jixi is a city in southeastern Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China.
At the 2020 census, 1,502,060 people resided within its administrative area of 22,488.47 square kilometres (8,682.85 sq mi) and 560,118 in its built-up area made up of 3 out of 6 urban districts. By the end of 2024, the total registered population of the city is 1,593,200, of which the urban population is 1,006 million. Jixi is on the Muling River about 30 km (19 mi) from the border with Russia's Primorsky Krai and 120 km (75 mi) from Lake Xingkai. The mayor of Jixi is Zhang Changrong (张常荣) since June 2015. The area is one of the important coal mining bases in China. A crater on asteroid 253 Mathilde was named after the city.
Getting to Jixi
You can fly in from Shanghai, Qingdao, Beijing and Harbin. Trains from Harbin take 8-11 hours and cost ¥38-215. Buses from Harbin take about 6 hours.
Worth seeing
Khanka Lake Ussuri River Zhenbao Island, Location of a border incident between China and the Soviet Union
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