Muling’s forests after the logging era
After natural-forest commercial logging ended in 2014, Muling’s forest bureau expanded protection, sustainable-management certification and non-timber forest products.
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Dongning Fortress: military engineering inside a hill
The open Xunshan site is one part of a wider fortification group, interpreted through occupation, resistance and remembrance.
Suifenhe’s White Building
A 1913 railway official’s residence survives as a distinctive Russian eclectic building whose rooms passed through successive civic uses.
Conserving Hengdaohezi’s railway heritage
The depot and church were repaired using a stated principle of retaining original fabric; later street and utility work made conservation part of the town’s infrastructure.
Hengdaohezi: houses, a church and a railway town
A railway settlement left a street of Russian-style homes, a wooden Orthodox church and a fan-shaped locomotive depot, each tied to a different part of town life.
Hengdaohezi’s locomotive depot
Fifteen brick bays and a central turntable made Hengdaohezi’s fan-shaped engine house a working railway machine.
Palace Site No. 3 at Bohai Shangjing
A conservation plan locates the high platform on the palace city’s central axis and explains how to read its position.
Bohai Shangjing: a capital in three enclosures
The outer city, imperial city and palace city offer a way to read the capital’s nested plan.
Diaoshuilou: water at Jingpo Lake’s edge
A 2023 winter report measured the icefall and described the hot spring water that remains open beneath it.
Jingpo Lake: where lava blocked a river
A volcanic field, a river dammed by lava and a lake’s fishing traditions form three distinct layers of the Jingpo landscape.