Heihe

• Hei-ho (Wade–Giles)

From Mandarin 黑河 (Hēihé, literally “black river”) referring to the Amur.

• enPR: hāʹhǔʹ^[1]

Heihe

1. A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China, on the Russian border, across the Amur river from the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk.
   • [1977 November, Rewi Alley, “To Heiho on the Heilungkiang”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XVI, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:

     Nunkiang is a county of 450,000 people on a wide area, one of the counties of Heiho prefecture.]

   • 1983 June 27 [1983 May 28], “Heilongjiang's Aihui County Joins Heihe City”, in Daily Report: China, number 124, sourced from Harbin HEILONGJIANG RIBAO p 1 [黑龙江日报], translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC Regional Affairs: Northeast Region, page S 2:

     According to our reporter Wang Zengxiang, the organizational system of our province's Aihui County has already been canceled and in line with an official and written reply of the State Council to our province, this county will be incorporated into Heihe City. […]
     Heihe City was established in 1980 with the approval of the State Council. Its administrative division covers Heihe Township of the former Aihui County, one suburban commune, and three neighboring collieries. After Aihui is incorporated into Heihe City, Heihe City will still be under the leadership of Heihe Prefecture.

   • 2015 December 15, Michael Schuman, “Thaw in China-Russia Relations Hasn’t Trickled Down”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 December 2015, International Business‎^[4]:

     Trade between Heihe and Blagoveshchensk reopened in 1986, and in 2000 a small special economic zone was formed along the border to encourage commerce. Shop fronts in Heihe display signs in both Chinese characters and Russian Cyrillic.

   • 2021 November 9, “Chinese city offers cash for clues in Covid 'people's war'”, in France 24‎^[5], sourced from Beijing (AFP), archived from the original on 09 November 2021, Live news‎^[6]:

     But the current outbreak has hit more than 40 cities, and officials in Heihe -- a northern city on the border with Russia -- said they would offer 100,000 yuan ($15,500) as a reward for information.
     "In order to uncover the source of this virus outbreak as soon as possible and find out the chain of transmission, it is necessary to wage a people's war of epidemic prevention and control," the city government said in a notice.

• Black River
• Río Negro

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Heihe”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1260, column 2