Daqing
Daqing
大庆市 | |
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Around Sanyong Lake, 2017 | |
Location of Daqing City (yellow) in Heilongjiang (light gray) and China | |
| 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 | |
| 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) | |
| 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 |
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"Daqing", as written in Chinese | |||||||||
| 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 | ᡩᠠᡴᡳᠩ 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 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.
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.