Baicheng

Baicheng is a prefecture-level town in the northwestern a part of Jilin province, People's Republic of China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Heilongjiang to the east and northeast. At the 2010 census, 2,033,058 humans resided inside its administrative place of 25,683 km2. The region round modern-day Baicheng turned into a nomadic vicinity which turned into inhabited by using several nomad tribes in Northeast China as early because the Late Neolithic Age, which include the Eastern Hu, the Xianbei, the Fuyu, and the Khitans once inhabited the area.

During the Liao Dynasty, Baicheng changed into the political middle of 4 emperors, including Emperor Shengzong, Emperor Xingzong, Emperor Daozong, and Emperor Tianzuo, because the seat of the nearby authorities changed into placed at Chengsijiazi Ancient castle in state-of-the-art Taobei District. As Qing Government forsook the settlement of Han Chinese in the nineteenth century, no farming become allowed until 1902.

In 1904 Baicheng became a county going by means of the call of Jing'an. In 1914 Jing'an County turned into renamed Tao'an. By 1938 it was in the end renamed Baicheng, which in Chinese method white city. The name's starting place is the Mongolian name of the metropolis Chaghanhot, which additionally method "white metropolis". Baicheng used to belong to Nenjiang and Heilongjiang province, underneath the jurisdiction of the previous provincial capital Qiqihar. In 1954, with the Heilongjiang Province merged with Songjiang Province, Baicheng was integrated into Jilin Province.