Mudanjiang City is the transliteration of rotating Manchu “ Wula”, which means the crooked river. Mudanjiang is a young city; it was the very meagerly populated virgin pasture originally. While building the railway of the Middle East in 1903, tsarist Russia set up the station here. Because it was located in the riverbank of Peony River, so it is named Mudanjiang. The city was established in December 1937, formerly to be all-over general province provincial capital of east at that time. On August 14, 1945, Mudanjiang was liberated. After liberation, under the leadership of the party, the economic and social development of Mudanjiang City was very fast, it is an important industrial city of Heilongjiang Province now.
History of the basin of Mudanjiang is long. Between the Shang Dynasty and Sui Dynasty, more than 2,300 years, the ancestor of Manchu Su Shen, Yi Lou, kept the close connection to Central Plains. During the Tang period, from A.D. 671 to A.D.926, millet Mohe (Originally one branch of Mohe tribe) rose in Mudanjiang, having set up the country of the Bohai Sea. The capital was in dragon-spring of Shangjing. It is within the territory of the garrison post of the Bohai Sea of the county of Ning'an now. At the provincial capital, it is a Bohai Prefecture king that King is sealed by the Tang's Taizong Emperor. The Glossy privet clan (descendant dark water Mohe Tribe) set up Jin nation in A Cheng During Song Dynasty; here is a gold way——Road of Kazakhstan of the Nurhachi. In Yuan Dynasty, people set up the office of army and residence here. Ming Dynasty, Nurgan Genaral was set up, in order to command to do in Heilongjiang in the period of the Yongle, which has the jurisdiction over 179 defenses, Mudanjiang basin whether mao that have under its command their is it defend affiliated ground to sympathize with mostly. Woman loyal clan descendant nguktrum Kazakhstan red basin one generation rise from Mudanjiang later on, unify the Northeast, is it turn off and establish the clear kingdom to enter. In Qing Dynasty, the priority here was peaceful ancient tower general and Jilin general's administration ground. At that time, “Chinese flag was mixed, had not had vast soil yet” along Mudanjiang, but because Qing Dynasty is it prohibit policy of cultivating to implement with “forefather take place auspicious Holy Land”, most places of bank develop yet.
Modern history of Mudanjiang is history of anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle of the people of all nationalities. “918 ” in 1931 is after the incident, the people of all nationalities in Mudanjiang were under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, have resisted the invasion of Japan's imperialism bravely. The Anti-Japanese Amalgamated Army of the Northeast mirror in the area moor lakeside, Mudanjiang bank and the masses of remote, thickly forested mountains in Mudanjiang, having carried on extremely hard and bitter struggle with Japanese invaders, a lot of heroic and moving revolutionary achievements emerge. Mudanjiang is one of the cities of national earliest liberation. After liberation, a lot of changes have taken place in administrative division and membership in Mudanjiang. The province of Suining was established in 1946, and then changed the province of Mudanjiang, the provincial capital was set up in Mudanjiang. Incorporated into the province of Songjiang in October of 1948. Songjiang province amalgamate with Heilongjiang Province, belonged to Heilongjiang Province, and set up the prefectural commissioner's office of Mudanjiang in February of 1956 1954. The districts and cities amalgamated during “the Culture Revolution” in 1968, established “revolutionary committee” of area of Mudanjiang. The districts and cities were set up separately in 1973. According to the decision of the State Council in October 1983, the districts and cities amalgamated again, cancelled the regional administrative office, implement the leadership structure with county of the city.
