Harbin city lies in the north of China and is has 2.600.000 inhabitants. It was founded in 1890 by some Russian engineers, who also built the eastern highway of China, in short time becoming a cosmopolitan city.
It is called “Moscow of the east”. Harbin is an important riparian harbor, a railway knot and industrial center. In Harbin the industry of processing and building planes and automobiles has a great development, the food industry, the tobacco industry, the metallurgical industry, the chemical industry, the mineral oil and coal processing industry, tractors’ building industry, electric equipment. |