The Hulan River (

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: 呼兰河;

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: Hūlán Hé; English: ''Call Orchid'') is a river in

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...

Province, China. The Hulan rises in the

Lesser Khingan Lesser Khingan (; russian: Малый Хинган, ''Maly Khingan'') is a mountain range in China's Heilongjiang province and the adjacent parts of Russia's Amur Oblast and Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

mountains, south of Yichun (). It flows west past Tieli and north of

Suihua Suihua () is a prefecture-level city in west-central Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, adjacent to Yichun to the east, Harbin, the provincial capital, to the south, Daqing to the west and Heihe to the north. It has 3,756,167 inha ...

. After the confluence with the Tongken River, it turns south to join the

Songhua River The Songhua or Sunghwa River (also Haixi or Xingal, russian: Сунгари ''Sungari'') is one of the primary rivers of China, and the longest tributary of the Amur. It flows about from the Changbai Mountains on the China–North Korea bo ...

in Hulan County, where it flows into the new Dadingshan Reservoir, just east of Harbin (), . The river

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extensively across the

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, creating many bifurcations and

oxbow lakes An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake or pool that forms when a wide meander of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water. In South Texas, oxbows left by the Rio Grande are called '' resacas''. In Australia, oxbow lakes are calle ...

. The approximate length is 350 km, but there is often more than one stream, and the actual distance including all the bends is 532 km. The area of the catchment basin is 31,207 km². It has a wide floodplain of fertile black soil. After a comprehensive management plan for the river basin was implemented in the 1950s, it became a center of production for grain, flax and sugar beet. There is a

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called the Xiaohulan River (''Little Hulan''), which flows northwest to join the main river west of Tieli. Other tributaries include the Yijimi, Ougen, Liu, Gemuke, Nuomin, Ni and Tongken Rivers. On 1 April 2020, the river suffered pollution with Molybdenum and related refining materials, from a smelter in Yichun.

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