Bei'an () is a

county-level city A county-level city () is a County-level divisions of China, county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local or ...

in west-central

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province in the

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. It is under the jurisdiction of

Heihe Heihe (; ; Russian language, Russian: Хэйхэ) is a prefecture-level city of northern Heilongjiang province, China, located on the Sino-Russian border, Russian border, on the south bank of the Amur River, Amur (Heilong) River, across the r ...

. Bei'an was the provincial capital of Bei'an province of

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, a puppet state set up by Japan during the

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. Bei'an received the unofficial moniker of "Gun City" because it was the location of Factory #626; Factory #626 mainly manufactured Chinese clones of WW2 firearms and Type 56 rifles. Eventually, it was privatized in the 1980s as the Shougang Kingho Plant until it went bankrupt in 2006. Six years later, a museum detailing the history of Factory #626 opened.

Administrative divisions

There are six subdistricts, five

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and four townships under the city's administration:

Subdistricts

* Heping Subdistrict () * Zhaolin Subdistrict () * Qinghua Subdistrict () * Tiexi Subdistrict () * Tienan Subdistrict () * Beigang Subdistrict ()

Towns

* Tongbei () * Zhaoguang () * Shiquan () * Haixing () * Erjing ()

Townships

* Chengjiao Township () * Dongsheng Township () * Yangjia Township () * Zhuxing Township ()

Climate

References

External links

Cities in Heilongjiang County level divisions of Heilongjiang Heihe Long stubs with short prose {{Heilongjiang-geo-stub