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Harbin

American  
[hahr-bin] / ˈhɑrˈbɪn /

noun

Pinyin.
  1. a city in and the capital of Heilongjiang province, in northeastern China.


Harbin British  
/ hɑːˈbiːn, -ˈbɪn /

noun

  1. Also called: Ha-erh-pin. a city in NE China, capital of Heilongjiang province on the Songhua River: founded by the Russians in 1897; centre of tsarist activities after the October Revolution in Russia (1917). Pop: 2 989 000 (2005 est)

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In 2024 Giordano flew to Harbin, China—known for its ice festival—to collect a plane for a client who wanted its engines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

That year, multiple episodes of prolonged haze shrouded Chinese cities, with one in October bringing northeastern Harbin to a standstill for days as PM2.5 levels hit 40 times the WHO's then-recommended standard.

From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026

In a study published in Science Bulletin, scientists from Peking University Health Science Center and the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute uncovered a previously unknown route that helps viruses spread faster and more aggressively.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026

Junhui Huang, a chemist at the Harbin Institute of Technology and the paper’s first author, says the team is working with a Chinese wastewater cleanup company to commercialize the new technology.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 4, 2024

About Harbin, where the South Manchuria Railway joins the Trans-Siberian Line, one may see cuts thirty feet deep and the soil rich to the bottom.

From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Clarence Hamilton Poe

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