Meaning of Aigun | Babel Free

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A town in Heihe, Heilongjiang, China.

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“North: Heilungkiang, 140,000 square miles. Population, 2,000,000. Capital, Tsitsihar, or, in Chinese, Pukwei; chief mart, Aigun, on the Amur, forty miles below Blagoveschensk (destroyed by the Russians in 1900).”

“Foreign trade goes not to Aigun, but to the Chinese town of Taheiho, which is situated about 30 miles distant from Aigun and is directly opposite the Siberian city of Blagovestchensk, on the other side of the Amur River.”

“Tsitsihar, or Pukwei, is the capital of Heilungkiang, its chief mart being Aigun, on the Amur.”

“The rest of the route is mountainous and construction will presumably have to wait till funds are more plentiful. All these schemes are part of a ten-year program which is only beginning. It is worth noting that this stretch was part of Willard Straight's old plan (1909) for a trunk line from Chinchow to Aigun near Heiho. That project caused an international squabble of some importance in its day in which Russia and Japan joined hands to prevent an American-British combination going into the railway business in Manchuria.”

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