Pingfang District () is one of nine
districts of the
prefecture-level city
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of
Harbin
Harbin, ; zh, , s=哈尔滨, t=哈爾濱, p=Hā'ěrbīn; IPA: . is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban area, urban population (after Shenyang, Lia ...
, the capital of
Heilongjiang Province,
Northeast China
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, forming part of the city's urban core. The least spacious of Harbin's
county-level division
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s, it borders the districts of
Xiangfang to the north,
Acheng to the east,
Shuangcheng to the southwest, and
Nangang to the west.
History
Pingfang was the headquarters of the
Japan
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ese
biological warfare
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research facility
Unit 731 during the
Japanese invasion of China and
World War II
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. It had an airport, railway and dungeons. Most of Pingfang was burnt by Japanese officials to
destroy evidence but the incinerator where the remains of victims were burnt remains and is still in use as part of a factory.
Administrative divisions
Pingfang District is divided into 9 subdistricts and 1 town.
;9 subdistricts
*
Xingjian (),
Baoguo (),
Lianmeng (),
Youxie (),
Xinjiang
Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...
(),
Xinwei (),
Pingxin (),
Jian'an (),
Pingsheng ()
;1 town
*
Pingfang ()
Economy
Pingfang is an industrial center of Harbin nowadays. Hafei (a factory producing helicopters, small airplanes, minivans, and cars), Dongan (a factory producing aircraft and automobile engines), and Northeast Light Alloy Processing Plant are the three major manufacturers there.
Harbin Aircraft Industry Group (Hafei) has its headquarters in the district.
Home
" (English). Harbin Aircraft Industry Group. Retrieved on August 8, 2014. "ADDRESS: NO,15, YOUXIE STREET, PINGFANG DISTRICT, HARBIN."
Chinese address
: ""
References
External links
Unit 731, a half century of denial
Military history of Japan during World War II
Districts of Harbin
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