Daqing

Daqing
大庆市
Around Sanyong Lake, 2017
Location of Daqing City (yellow) in Heilongjiang (light gray) and China
Daqing
Location of the city centre in Heilongjiang
Daqing
Daqing (China)
Coordinates (Daqing municipal government): 46°35′20″N 125°06′14″E / 46.589°N 125.104°E / 46.589; 125.104
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceHeilongjiang
County-level divisions9
Municipal seatSartu District
Government
 • TypePrefecture-level city
 • CPC Daqing SecretaryHan Lihua (韩立华)
 • MayorHe 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
 • Density125.52/km2 (325.09/sq mi)
 • Urban
1,754,655
 • Urban density343.6/km2 (889.9/sq mi)
 • Metro
1,574,389
 • Metro density575.73/km2 (1,491.1/sq mi)
GDP
 • Prefecture-level cityCN¥ 298.4 billion
US$ 47.9 billion
 • Per capitaCN¥ 107,419
US$ 17,247
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
163000
Area code0459
ISO 3166 codeCN-HL-06
Licence plates黑E
ClimateDwa
Websitewww.daqing.gov.cn
Daqing
"Daqing", as written in Chinese
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese大庆
Traditional Chinese大慶
PostalTaching
Literal meaningGreat Celebration
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDàqìng
Wade–GilesTa⁴-chʻing⁴
Mongolian name
Mongolian CyrillicДачин хот
Mongolian scriptᠳᠠᠴᠢᠩ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Transcriptions
SASM/GNCdačiŋ ꭓota
Manchu name
Manchu scriptᡩᠠᡴᡳᠩ ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ
RomanizationDaking 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. 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.According to the sample survey of 5‰ population changes in 2024, the resident population of the city at the end of the year was 2.663 million, a decrease of 37,000 compared with the end of the previous year. Among them, the urban population is 1.996 million and the rural population is 667,000.