| Suifenhe 绥芬河 |
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| — County-level city — | |
| 绥芬河市 | |
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Suifenhe
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| Coordinates: | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Heilongjiang |
| Prefecture-level city | Mudanjiang |
| City seat | Suifenhe Town (绥芬河镇) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 460 km2 (177.6 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 464 m (1,522 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 100,000 |
| • Density | 217.4/km2 (563/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 130200 |
| Area code(s) | 0431 |
| Website | [www.suifenhe.gov.cn] |
Suifenhe (simplified Chinese: 绥芬河; traditional Chinese: 綏芬河; pinyin: Suífēnhé; Wade–Giles: Sui-fen-ho), is a city in southeastern Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, located situated where the former Chinese Eastern Railway crosses the border with Russia's Primorsky Krai.
The city shares its name with the Suifen River.
Suifenhe and the surrounding border areas were scenes of vicious combat when the Soviet Union invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria in August 1945.
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Suifenhe has a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate (Köppen Dwb), with long, very cold, but dry winters, and warm, humid summers. Daily mean temperatures range from −16.6 °C (2.1 °F) in January to 19.6 °C (67.3 °F) in July, and the annual average is 2.86 °C (37.1 °F). Precipitation is light in the winter, and more than 2/3 of the year's precipitation occurs from June to September.
| Climate data for Suifenhe (1971−2000) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | −10.7 (12.7) |
−6.8 (19.8) |
1.1 (34.0) |
11.2 (52.2) |
18.2 (64.8) |
21.9 (71.4) |
25.0 (77.0) |
24.3 (75.7) |
18.9 (66.0) |
11.3 (52.3) |
0.2 (32.4) |
−8 (18) |
8.88 (47.99) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −21.5 (−6.7) |
−18.3 (−0.9) |
−10.7 (12.7) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
4.4 (39.9) |
10.0 (50.0) |
14.6 (58.3) |
14.0 (57.2) |
6.3 (43.3) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
−10.6 (12.9) |
−18.2 (−0.8) |
−2.76 (27.03) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 5.9 (0.232) |
7.8 (0.307) |
11.9 (0.469) |
26.6 (1.047) |
53.9 (2.122) |
96.3 (3.791) |
113.3 (4.461) |
105.5 (4.154) |
67.7 (2.665) |
39.9 (1.571) |
15.2 (0.598) |
9.8 (0.386) |
553.8 (21.803) |
| % humidity | 66 | 63 | 57 | 53 | 59 | 77 | 82 | 82 | 75 | 62 | 62 | 66 | 67.0 |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.1 | 6.8 | 8.2 | 9.6 | 13.0 | 15.6 | 15.2 | 14.1 | 10.7 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 123.8 |
| Sunshine hours | 182.1 | 188.5 | 229.9 | 216.4 | 236.5 | 211.2 | 206.3 | 203.4 | 206.9 | 206.1 | 169.2 | 156.7 | 2,413.2 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration | |||||||||||||
The train station on the opposite side of the border is Grodekovo, in the town of Pogranichny. As of December 2009, Russian train schedule sites show the existence of the passenger train no. 401, making the 26-km trip between Suifenhe and Grodekovo twice a week; however, the twice-a-week trains no. 006, Khabarovsk-Harbin, and no. 967, Vladivostok-Harbin only have a scheduled stop in Grodekovo and not in Suifenhe.[1]
The Environmental Investigation Agency conducted an investigation in February 2008, in the illegal logging of Russian wood, which was taking place in Suifenhe. The main supplier of the wood, Wal-Mart, has recently acknowledged that the practice in Suifenhe is illegal, under Russian law, and has committed to end all illegal sales of wood in six years.[2]
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