Qiqihar 齐齐哈尔Qíqíhā’ěr

About Qiqihar

Qiqihar takes its name from a Daur word meaning 'border' or 'natural pasture', and the Daur still have their own district, Meilisi, within the city. It was the seat of Heilongjiang's Qing military governors from 1699 and the provincial capital again from 1949 to 1954, and its old centre keeps the Bukui Mosque, the oldest in Heilongjiang, and Longsha Park with its lakeside Wangjiang Tower of 1908. Just outside, Zhalong Nature Reserve is a vast reed marsh famous for its red-crowned cranes.

What to eat in Qiqihar

• Qiqihar barbecue (齐齐哈尔烤肉)

Listed sites in Qiqihar

16 sites in Qiqihar are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.

• Zhalong Nature Reserve 扎龙生态旅游区 5A scenic area
  A vast freshwater reed marsh on the Wuyuer River plain, known as a breeding ground for red-crowned cranes and listed as a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in 1992.
• China First Heavy Industries Industrial Tourism Area 中国一重工业旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
  China First Heavy Industries is a heavy-machinery maker in the industrial town of Fularji, one of the three Soviet-aided projects of China's first Five-Year Plan sited there in the 1950s.
• Hala New Village 哈拉新村 4A scenic area · on the map
  A village of about 60 hectares on the grassland at the edge of Qiqihar, marketed as the first Daur village in China; the Daur are an ethnic minority of the Nen River valley.
• Hecheng Happy World 鹤城欢乐世界 4A scenic area · on the map
  An amusement park inside Hecheng Park in the south of Qiqihar, with some 30 rides, among them a Ferris wheel, pirate ship, carousel and bumper cars, plus an indoor children's play area and a hotel.
• Jiangqiao Resistance Memorial Site 江桥抗战纪念地 4A scenic area · on the map
  A memorial park and museum at Jiangqiao on the Nen River, where Heilongjiang provincial troops under Ma Zhanshan fought Japanese forces at the railway bridge in November 1931.
• Longsha Park 龙沙公园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A large urban park of about 64 hectares in the centre of Qiqihar, with Laodong Lake and Wangjiang Tower, a lakeside pavilion first built in 1908.
• Longsha Zoo and Botanical Garden 龙沙动植物园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A zoo and botanical garden on the northern edge of Qiqihar, with more than 200 species and about 3,000 animals from five continents, along with plants of the 47th parallel.
• Longteng Eco Hot Spring Resort 龙腾生态温泉度假庄园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hot-spring resort in Fuyu county on the edge of the Longanqiao wetland, across the Wuyuer River from the Zhalong reserve.
• Mingyue Island 明月岛 4A scenic area · on the map
  A wooded island in the Nen River just north-west of Qiqihar, laid out as a park from 1981 and named Mingyue ("Bright Moon") in 1984.
• Nianzishan Tourism Area 碾子山旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
  A district-wide tourism area in the low hills at the eastern foot of the Greater Khingan range, west of Qiqihar, rather than a single park.
• Shuishi Forest Hot Spring Resort 水师森林温泉度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hot-spring resort set in a forest park near Shuishiying in Ang'angxi district, covering about 2.5 square kilometres.
• Taihu National Wetland Park, Tailai 泰湖国家湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A national wetland park on the eastern edge of Tailai county town, developed from 2002, with a lake, reed beds and a lotus pond.
• Ang'angxi Sites and Site Museum 昂昂溪遗址 National heritage site
  The Ang'angxi sites are a group of Neolithic fishing-and-hunting settlements on the Nen River plain, which gave their name to the Ang'angxi culture first dug by the archaeologist Liang Siyong in 1930.
• Bukui Mosque 卜奎清真寺 National heritage site
  Described by Xinhua as the largest and oldest mosque in Heilongjiang, Bukui Mosque is still used for worship in the old centre of Qiqihar.
• Former Heilongjiang Military Governor's Office 黑龙江督军署旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  The former headquarters of Heilongjiang's military governors in the early Republic of China, built over an earlier Qing residence in Qiqihar's old walled quarter.
• Tazicheng Walled City Site 塔子城址 National heritage site · on the map
  Tazicheng is the walled city of the Liao and Jin dynasties, once the seat of Taizhou prefecture, whose square circuit of about 4.5 km still shows in the landscape even though most of the wall and its gate-forts have worn down.

On the map

Open Qiqihar on the illustrated map to see its outline, its places and listed sites together, and to add them to a trip.

Learn more

• Wikipedia
• Official website
• Wikipedia (Chinese)