Nenjiang Province (in simplified Chinese 嫩江省) is one of the nine eastern provinces in the Republic of China. People sometimes would call this province “Nen” for short and the provincial capital of Nenjiang Province was located at Qiqihar. The province is called Nenjiang Province because Nenjiang, a river, is running through the whole territory of this province.

Nenjiang Province has an area of 77,326 square kilometers. At the east of the junction, this province is connected to the Jiang Province, and the southern part of it is near the Songjiang Province, Jilin Province and Liaoning Province while the western part of this province is near the Xing’an province. North of the Nenjiang Province was the Heilongjiang Province.

In fact, the area of this province is mainly plains, in addition to the west close to Daxinganling which is hilly. The whole territory is part of the Songliao Plain. Nenjiang (some people also call it Nen River) and the Hulan River are the main rivers running through this province, these two rivers actually belong to the Songhua River range. The Nenjiang Province had a continental climate, with annual rainfall of about 400 mm. Within this province, there are a lot of black soil zones, and the soil is very fertile and is suitable for farming and grazing.

Therefore, it is not hard to understand that the people living in that area were quite peaceful. They could feed on their own easily with the cattle as well as the crops. They do not need to trade for a long distance for what they need for their basic life. They could simply trade within a village in which some grow crops and some graze cattle. Even during the war time, when roads to other provinces were blocked or full of danger, people in Nenjiang Province could still survive because even though they are isolated in a town, they could still get all the basic necessities for their life.

In 1949, after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, this province was abolished and the land became the land of Heilongjiang Province.