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Harbin

American  
[hahr-bin] / ˈhɑrˈbɪn /

noun

Pinyin.
  1. a city in and the capital of Heilongjiang province, in northeastern China.


Harbin British  
/ -ˈbɪn, hɑːˈbiːn /

noun

  1. Also called: Ha-erh-pin.  a city in NE China, capital of Heilongjiang province on the Songhua River: founded by the Russians in 1897; centre of tsarist activities after the October Revolution in Russia (1917). Pop: 2 989 000 (2005 est)

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That year, multiple episodes of prolonged haze shrouded Chinese cities, with one in October bringing northeastern Harbin to a standstill for days as PM2.5 levels hit 40 times the WHO's then-recommended standard.

From Barron's

In a study published in Science Bulletin, scientists from Peking University Health Science Center and the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute uncovered a previously unknown route that helps viruses spread faster and more aggressively.

From Science Daily

In 2020, a Ghana Air Force Harbin Z-9 helicopter made an emergency landing near Tamale Airport, and last year, another Ghana Air Force helicopter made an emergency landing at Bonsukrom in Ghana's Western Region.

From BBC

China already describes itself as a "near-Arctic state", even though its northernmost regional capital Harbin is on roughly the same latitude as Venice, Italy.

From BBC

Junhui Huang, a chemist at the Harbin Institute of Technology and the paper’s first author, says the team is working with a Chinese wastewater cleanup company to commercialize the new technology.

From Science Magazine