FIND CHINA introduces Hegang

Hegang is a prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China; Hegang is located in northeastern China in the Xiao Hinggan Ling (Lesser Khingan Range) south of the Russian border.

Hegang is a city within a coal mining area and has a population 754,000 (third of Heilongjiang). Hegang was originally established, and subsequently prospered, on the basis of its coal mining industry.

Hegang is a mountain city, and mountainous regions make up 70 percent of its total area, where quality timber trees, such as Korean pine and Manchurian ash, grow in natural forests, as well as edible mountain herbs and ginseng. In its waters, aquatic products such as the huso sturgeon and chum salmon swim. In remote antiquity, its luxuriant water plants attracted cranes, which made it their habitat, hence its name (Hegang meaning Crane Hill in Chinese).

The Weichang Red-crowned Crane Nature Reserve, located 40 kilometres from downtown Hegang, is one of the three major habitats of waterfowl in Heilongjiang Province..