From late December, visitors flock to this city in Heilongjiang Province in the north-east of China to experience one of the finest ice and snow festivals anywhere in the world.
Experts from Shandong, a province in the north-east of China, were asked to produce a feasibility study, and the government now proposes to start work.
Most of the unit's activities took place in occupied Manchuria, in north-east China, where the victims of its ghastly experiments were Chinese, Koreans and Russians.
For the Asian leg of the project he will work in a village in China's Huadu district north east of the city of Guangzhou.
As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China.
China is North Korea's closest ally and officially regards the thousands of North Koreans who live in north east China as economic migrants who face repatriation.
In north-east China lie the archaeological remains of the Koguryo kingdom of 37BC-668AD, the fount of Korean culture and myth.
Japanese officials feared that similar unrest might break out on September 18th, the anniversary of an incident in 1931 that led to Japan's occupation of north-east China.
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The company has operations in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Asian-Pacific region and North America, but China projects account for 83% of revenue.
Dogs are a popular dish in many parts of China, not least among ethnic Koreans in the north-east.
Doede, who chairs the private equity AIG Silk Road Fund, spent an average of a week a month for four and a half years looking for "a neglected opportunity" in the politically and economically dicey part of the world stuck between Russia to the north, China to the east and Iran and Pakistan to the south.
Yet a Chinese general disapproved of the meeting and bluntly told Banyan that America's alliances in North-East Asia were intended to threaten China.
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