Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River
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The Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River (Traditional Chinese: 江東六十四屯; Simplified Chinese: 江东六十四屯; pinyin: Jiāngdōng Liùshísì Tún) are located on the left bank (north bank) of the Amur River (known as Hēilóng Jiāng in Chinese) opposite of Heihe and on the east bank of Zeya River opposite of Blagoveshchensk. The area is 3600 km². In the Treaty of Aigun signed by the Qing Empire (China) and Russian Empire, the north bank of the Amur was ceded to Russia. However, because the Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River had many residing Chinese residents, the area was still designated as administered by China.
During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 when China could not take care of its Northeast, Russia sent its troops to occupy the 64 Villages and forced the people there to cross the Amur themselves into China. Many Chinese people died in this invasion.
The Republic of China (ROC) has never recognized the Russian occupation as legitimate. In the 1991 Sino-Russian Border Agreement, the People's Republic of China (PRC) renounced sovereignty of the 64 Villages. However, the Republic of China now based in Taiwan never renounced sovereignty of the area nor does it recognize any border agreements signed by the People's Republic of China with any other countries, so the area still appears as Chinese territory in many maps of China published in Taiwan.
[edit] External links
- Anything for Power: The Real Story of China’s Jiang Zemin (Chapter 14) (Chinese version) - The Epoch Times criticism of the treaty mentioning the Sixty-four villages east of the Heilongjiang River
