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From the municipal website of Daqing, China, a major oil-producing city in the northeast, here's the city's official tourist guide (bold text added by me)
Located at the western part of the Son, neng Plain, Daqing is famous for its abundant oil resources
and petro-chemical products. It boasts a variety of tourist attractions, 'Lich as bird-watchine, summer
resort and horse race on the Durbud Grasslands.
About two hours' bus journey (£Â¡Ã¨35) west of Harbin via a brand new road, National Highway 301
(also known as the "HaDa Expressway"), sprawls the boom-town of DAQING , home of China's largest oil reserve
and now Heilongjiang's second city. Daqing is a nice place in which to spend a day and is certainly unique in
China. It's interesting in a quirky way, with road names such as "Calgary Street" and oil pumps, called
ketouji (literally, "kowtowing machines"), everywhere. China's oil wells are owned by the government, but
Western companies have a stake here as vendors of drilling equipment, and so foreigners aren't that rare a
sight. The town has an older western half and the new, gleaming eastern portion, with a billboard of Deng
Xiaoping gracing the entrance to the government offices. Buses #23 and #30 go from the train station to the
new section of town, where the Daqing Hotel lives up to the boom-town image of overpriced rooms, liquor and
prostitutes. There's no skyline in Daqing, save for some cooling towers, but folks are friendly and the
connections on to Qiqihar and Harbin are constant; trains are many and buses leave every fifteen minutes from
outside the train station.
and petro-chemical products. It boasts a variety of tourist attractions, 'Lich as bird-watchine, summer
resort and horse race on the Durbud Grasslands.
About two hours' bus journey (£Â¡Ã¨35) west of Harbin via a brand new road, National Highway 301
(also known as the "HaDa Expressway"), sprawls the boom-town of DAQING , home of China's largest oil reserve
and now Heilongjiang's second city. Daqing is a nice place in which to spend a day and is certainly unique in
China. It's interesting in a quirky way, with road names such as "Calgary Street" and oil pumps, called
ketouji (literally, "kowtowing machines"), everywhere. China's oil wells are owned by the government, but
Western companies have a stake here as vendors of drilling equipment, and so foreigners aren't that rare a
sight. The town has an older western half and the new, gleaming eastern portion, with a billboard of Deng
Xiaoping gracing the entrance to the government offices. Buses #23 and #30 go from the train station to the
new section of town, where the Daqing Hotel lives up to the boom-town image of overpriced rooms, liquor and
prostitutes. There's no skyline in Daqing, save for some cooling towers, but folks are friendly and the
connections on to Qiqihar and Harbin are constant; trains are many and buses leave every fifteen minutes from
outside the train station.
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