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Daqing ( Chinese : 大庆 ; pinyin : Dàqìng ; formerly romanized as Taching ) is a prefecture-level city in the west of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China . The name literally means "Great Celebration". Daqing is known as the Oil Capital of China and has experienced a phenomenal boom since oil was discovered there in 1959.
Its population was 2,904,532 at the 2010 PRC National Census , of whom 1,415,268 lived in the built-up area in 4 out of the total of 5 urban districts, i.e. ( Sartu , Longfeng , Ranghulu and Honggang ). Anda district of Suihua is also being urbanized.
The region now known as Daqing Prefecture was a reasonably insignificant place until the Qing Dynasty, known only as an unsettled hunting ground of Dörbet Oirat tribes due to its wetland and prairies. The region began to grow slightly after Czarist Russia constructed the Chinese Eastern Railway (KVZhD) through the area in 1898. The railway has a station at Sartu in today's Sartu District . It was not until 1959 that oil was discovered in the region as part of the large scale oil exploration put into motion