Jixi.

Jixi lies in eastern Heilongjiang, where the Xingkai Lake basin reaches across the China–Russia border and wetlands host seasonal bird movements. The city’s other defining history began with coal discovery and the growth of mining districts. Lake, marsh and industrial neighborhoods each offer a different view of how people have settled this border region.

Waves on Xingkai Lake’s northern shore — Waves on the Chinese northern shore of Xingkai Lake.

Jixi

Xingkai Lake: one border lake, two waters

A long sand ridge separates an inland reed lake from a much larger transboundary lake, while the surrounding wetlands connect their seasonal life.

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Spring migrants at Longwangmiao Wetland

On 6 March 2026, monitors first found spring migrants at Longwangmiao Wetland, including white-tailed and Steller’s sea eagles; large goose flocks followed days later.

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Yulianggou: from coal seam to village memory

A coal discovery in 1903 and a first recorded shovel in 1906 mark Yulianggou’s early mining story; village exhibits and new businesses carry that past into a rural present.

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Places

Longwangmiao Wetland

A city report records monitoring staff’s first detection of northbound migrants in a particular spring.

Xingkai Lake

Xingkai Lake is a transboundary system of connected but distinct large and small lakes.

Yulianggou Coal Discovery Site

A city history dates a first coal discovery to 1903 at Yulianggou in Didao.

Photo credits and rights

Waves on the Chinese northern shore of Xingkai Lake.trochowski163 / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Proportionally resized and converted to WebP; no cropping or scene-content changes.