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  • Harbin closes down online take-away food companies

    2016-03-22

    Harbin Food and Drug Administration decided to crack down on unlicensed restaurants, in light of the exposure of an online food service.

  • NE China customs agents targeting smugglers

    2016-03-22

    Customs officers in the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province cracked down on the smuggling of agricultural products, alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, guns, and rare animals and plants in 2015.

  • Solar halo appears in NE China

    2016-03-22

    In the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, people got a look at a special solar halo, at around 8:00 am, on March 21, with a rainbow around the sun clearly visible and lasting for more than 20 minutes.

  • NE China getting Chinese-Russian art sales online

    2016-03-22

    The city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province has announced plans to open a site online for Chinese-Russian art, which was started by a cultural enterprise in June of 2016, for specialized cross-border e-commerce that combines culture and finance.

  • Bookstores write new business chapter

    2016-03-22

    In the digital era, traditional bookstores face challenges from online rivals which let readers browse for books and read an e-book anywhere they can connect to the Internet.


  • China approves new bonded zone in the Northeast

    2016-03-18

    China’s State Council, the country’s cabinet, has approved a new bonded zone in the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, as another way to help the opening-up strategy in northeastern China.

  • NE China improving traditional industry with new ideas

    2016-03-17

    While steel sales have been slipping elsewhere in China since 2014 onward, the city of Harbin, in Heilongjiang province, has a steel company that has been bucking the trend.

  • Soybean province wants protection from GM

    2016-03-16

    National legislators from Heilongjiang province, which is China's principal producer of non-genetically-modified soybeans, are calling for a law to set up a special zone where the planting and processing of GM plants is prohibited.