Harbin (Ha’erbin), capital of Heilongjiang, China’s northernmost province, is a place of many contradictions. 
Travelers are faced with frequently cold and inhospitable climates, but comforted by a warm and friendly population, increasing huge and stark skyscrapers, The city first came into being with the settlement, in 1097, of the Nazhen nationality. The place then was a natural, and cold, fishing area, situated right on the Songhua River. By the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 AD) the area was renamed Haerbin, literally meaning “where the fishing nets are dried”.
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