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- [1888 [c. 1881], James Harrison Wilson, quoting Liu Ming-Ch’uan, “Memorial of Liu Ming-Ch’uan, a general in the Chinese army, in retirement, recommending the immediate introduction of railways as a means of augmenting the power of the country.”, in China: Travels and Investigations in the "Middle Kingdom": A Study of Its Civilization and Possibilites[1], →OCLC, pages 128–129:
- Russia has built railways which run from Europe to the neighborhood of Hao Han, and she purposes to build one from Hai-Shen-Wei to Hui Ch’un, and the reason why she did not proceed to send troops recently, when the quarrel with us commenced, is not that she feared to encounter our soldiers, but that her railways were not quite completed.]
- [1888 [c. 1881], James Harrison Wilson, quoting Li Hung-Chang, “Memorial of Li Hung-Chang”, in China: Travels and Investigations in the "Middle Kingdom": A Study of Its Civilization and Possibilites[2], →OCLC, page 138:
- "Russia has railways that run from Europe to within a short distance of Hao Han, Kiakhta, and neighboring places, and she is about to build a line from Hai Shen Wei to Hui Chun. The frontiers of China and Russia are co-terminous with each other for some ten thousand li. If we build some railways now while it is time, the present force of our army will be amply sufficient to protect our frontier; but without railways all our endeavors to protect that frontier will be futile, even though we increase our troops and supplies.]
- 1897, China (Annual Cyclopaedia)[3], volume 2, D. Appleton & Company, page 137:
- A convention concluded with China by Count Cassini, the Russian minister at Pekin, in the summer of 1896, in the form in which it was made public, conceded to the Russian Government the privilege of building a branch of the Siberian Railroad from some city in Siberia to Aiyun, in the Amur province, thence southwestward to the provincial capital of Tsitsihar and to Petune, in Kirin, and thence southeastward to the provincial capital of Kirin ; also to make a prolongation from the Russian port of Vladivostok to Hunchun, in Kirin province, and thence to the provincial capital of Kirin.
- 1910, The Provinces of China, Together with a History of the First Year of H.I.M. Hsuan Tung, and an Account of the Government of China[4], Shanghai: The National Review Office, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:
- The Tumen is not yet so important as the Yalu, but with the development of a rival to Vladivostock, now a closed port, in Hunchun, it is acquiring greater importance.
- 1980 [1936], Il-sung Kim, “The Watershed of the Revolution”, in Kim Il Sung Works[6], volume 48, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 201:
- When he set off for the Soviet Union via Hunchun in summer 1935, Wei Zheng-min promised to return via Harbin or Muling and meet me in Ningan.
- [2000, Lowell Dittmer, “China and Russia Approach the Millennium”, in Shalendra D. Sharma, editor, The Asia-Pacific in the New Millennium: Geopolitics, Security, and Foreign Policy[7], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 176:
- In May 1992 three economic development zones (similar to the special economic zones) were established in Urumqi, Shiheizi, and Kuitun in Xinjiang to lure foreign capital, all sited on the Eurasia railway near the inner Asian Islamic countries; similar arrangements were planned for Suifenhe in Heilongjiang, Huichun in Jilin, and Manzhouli in Inner Mongolia.]
- 2015, Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers, “Swallows and Magpies”, in In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom[8] (Non-fiction), Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:
- They were wed shortly after the war ended, and she traveled the 150 miles north with him, across the Chinese border to his home in Hunchun.
- 2017 October 5, Tim Sullivan, Hyung-Jin Kim, Martha Mendoza, “North Koreans prepping seafood for U.S. stores, restaurants”, in USA Today[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 October 2017[10]:
- Roughly 3,000 North Koreans are believed to work in Hunchun, a Chinese industrial hub near the North Korean and Russian borders.
- 2019 June 17, “'Explosion' near China-North Korea border causes small quake”, in France 24[11], archived from the original on 17 June 2019[12]:
- A "suspected explosion" near the China-North Korean border caused a small earthquake on Monday, Chinese seismology authorities said, less than an hour after news broke about Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming trip to Pyongyang.
According to the China Earthquake Networks Center, the 1.3-magnitude earthquake with a zero-metre depth occurred at 19:38 pm (1138 GMT) in Hunchun city in northeastern Jilin province.
It was unclear what caused the explosion.
- 2019 June 17, “China says suspected blast caused minor quake near N. Korea”, in AP News[13], archived from the original on 12 July 2022[14]:
- China Earthquake Networks Center said Monday the magnitude 1.3 earthquake occurred in the evening in Hunchun. The city is in northeastern Jilin province’s Yanbian prefecture, known for its large ethnic Korean population, and borders North Korea and Russia.
- 2020 September 20, Shivani Singh, Sophie Yu, “Coronavirus found on imported squid packaging in China”, in Philippa Fletcher, editor, Reuters[15], Health News:
- The Changchun COVID-19 prevention office said the squid had been imported from Russia by a company in Hunchun city and brought to the provincial capital.
- [2021 November 30, Roxanne Liu, Gabriel Crossley, Beijing Newsroom, “Two Chinese border cities limit rail imports amid COVID outbreak in the north”, in Christopher Cushing, Edwina Gibbs, editors, Reuters[16], archived from the original on 30 November 2021, Commodities[17]:
- The northeastern cities Huichun[sic – meaning Hunchun] and Dongning, both along the border with Russia, have suspended from mid-November some non-essential imports by highways, such as wine, milk and chocolate, to reduce infection risks.]