Daqing

"Taching" redirects here. For other uses, see Taching (disambiguation).

For other uses, see Daqing (disambiguation).

Daqing 大庆市
Prefecture-level city
Around Sanyong Lake, 2017
Location of Daqing City (yellow) in Heilongjiang (light gray) and China
Daqing Location of the city centre in Heilongjiang Daqing Daqing (China)
Coordinates (Daqing municipal government): 46°35′20″N 125°06′14″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Heilongjiang
County-level divisions	9
Municipal seat	Sartu District
Government
• Type	Prefecture-level city
• CPC Daqing Secretary	Han Lihua (韩立华)
• Mayor	He Zhonghua (何忠华)
Area
• Prefecture-level city	22,161 km2 (8,556 sq mi)
• Urban	5,107 km2 (1,972 sq mi)
• Metro	2,734.6 km2 (1,055.8 sq mi)
Elevation	149 m (489 ft)
Population  (2020 census)
• Prefecture-level city	2,781,562
• Density	125.52/km2 (325.09/sq mi)
• Urban	1,754,655
• Urban density	343.6/km2 (889.9/sq mi)
• Metro	1,574,389
• Metro density	575.73/km2 (1,491.1/sq mi)
GDP
• Prefecture-level city	CN¥ 298.4 billion US$ 47.9 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 107,419 US$ 17,247
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	163000
Area code	0459
ISO 3166 code	CN-HL-06
Licence plates	黑E
Climate	Dwa
Website	www.daqing.gov.cn

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Daqing
"Daqing", as written in Chinese
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	大庆
Traditional Chinese	大慶
Postal	Taching
Literal meaning	Great Celebration
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dàqìng Wade–Giles Ta⁴-chʻing⁴
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Дачин хот
Mongolian script	ᠳᠠᠴᠢᠩ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Transcriptions SASM/GNC dačiŋ ꭓota
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᡩᠠᡴᡳᠩ ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ
Romanization	Daking hoton

Daqing (simplified Chinese: 大庆; traditional Chinese: 大慶; pinyin: Dàqìng) is a prefecture-level city in the west of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. The name literally means "Great Celebration" and refers to the tenth anniversary of the PRC. Daqing is known as the "Oil Capital of China" and has experienced a phenomenal boom since oil was discovered at the Daqing Oil Field in 1959.

Its population was 2,781,562 as of the 2020 census, of whom 1,574,389 lived in the built-up (or metro) area in four out of the total of five urban districts: Sartu, Longfeng, Ranghulu and Honggang.According to the sample survey of 5‰ population changes in 2024, the resident population of the city at the end of the year was 2.663 million, a decrease of 37,000 compared with the end of the previous year. Among them, the urban population is 1.996 million and the rural population is 667,000.