Daqing City is located in western Heilongjiang Province in the central part of the Songhuajiang-Nenjiang Plain. About 2.9 million people live in its 22,161km2 area that is home of the largest onshore oilfield and an important petrochemical base of China.
Daqing City has emerged as a “Petroleum Capital" renowned for its petroleum, petrochemical, and highl¬and new-tech industries, and has been established as the most important center of economics, culture, education, healthcare and scientific research in western Heilongjiang Province.
In addition, Daqing is an ecological garden city with lakes, surrounded by green vegetation, and with a unique style thanks to its advantageous geography. This “100-lake City” stands on a wetland embraced by the Songhuajiang and Nenjiang rivers. With extensive green fields, dense lakes and swamps, and vast reed clumps, as well as the Longfeng Wetland Reserve, China's largest city-based wetland is a beautiful tourist destination. Daqing demonstrates how people can live in harmony with nature.
Daqing City is situated in a place that was a vast wasteland until half a century ago. Its birth was attributable to the discovery of the giant Daqing Oilfield that was marked by the emergence of oil from well Songji-3 on September 26, 1959, and followed by tens of thousands of petroleum workers coming from all over China to engage in a "major petroleum battle” at the oilfield. The result was its development as a petroleum city from the wasteland as the oilfield was continuously explored.
The information is provided by presentation of "Songliao Basin" from China National Petroleum Corporation.
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