Daqing
Daqing
大庆市 | |
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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 | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Heilongjiang |
| County-level divisions | 9 |
| Municipal seat | Sartu District |
| 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 | 125.52/km2 (325.09/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,754,655 |
| • Urban density | 343.6/km2 (889.9/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,574,389 |
| • Metro density | 575.73/km2 (1,491.1/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. 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.