Hailin
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Hailin (Chinese: 海林; pinyin: Hǎi Lín ; English: Sea Forest) is within the Hǎilín Shì county-level city administrative division, located in Mudanjiang prefecture, Heilongjiang, northeast China. It is named after the "boundless" Linhai Snowfield (林海雪原 Linhai Xueyuan). It has an area of 8,816 square kilometers, and a population of 440,000. Ethnic groups include the majority Han people as well as significant numbers of Manchu and ethnic Koreans.
Hailin is perhaps best known for the story of people's revolutionary hero Yang Zi Rong (Chinese: 杨子荣), the real life hero Zhang Zonggui. His story was made into a modern, revolutionary Beijing opera Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, based the 1957 novel Linhai xueyuan (Tracks in the snowy forest) by Qü Bo. Various movies have been made of the same story.
71% of the county is covered by forest. Important products include timber, medicinal herbs such as ginseng and eleutherococcus senticosus, and forest foods such as edible mushrooms, which are farmed in large quantities.
Hailin must have been inhabited even in the ancient times of the Shāng Dynasty(Chinese: 商朝) or Yīn Dynasty (殷代). Historic sites include ancient Qunli rock paintings, Jiangdong ancient cemetries of Jin Dynasty, Ninggu Tower General's Mansion of Qing Dynasty, a wooden Russian Orthodox cathedral, and a depot of the Chinese Eastern Railway constructed in 1903.
Tourist activities include ski-ing.
The county contains Hengdaohezi Tiger Park which is claimed to be the largest breeding center for Siberian tigers in the country. It was established in 1986 with 8 tigers, and has a population of some 500 tigers as of 2005.
