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Government of Heihe

The government of Heihe (黑河市人民政府) is the municipal administration of Heihe, a prefecture-level city in northern Heilongjiang province on China’s border with Russia. The city was established on February 8, 1993, when the State Council dissolved Heihe Prefecture (黑河地區) and reconstituted it as a prefecture-level city, according to the Heihe city government’s own historical account. Heihe sits across the Amur River from Blagoveshchensk, the capital of Russia’s Amur Oblast, and is promoted by Chinese authorities as the closest and largest paired city on the China-Russia border. The city government oversees six county-level divisions and administers a national-level border economic cooperation zone. Heihe’s municipal government co-founded the Heilongjiang Northeast Asia International Communication Center in February 2024 alongside the Heilongjiang Daily Press Group and Hong Kong’s Ta Kung Net, part of Heihe’s stated role in Heilongjiang’s “link south, open north” (南聯北開) international communication strategy.

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