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	Songhua River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Songhua River (Chinese: 松花江; Pinyin: Sōnghūa jiāng) is a river in Northeast China, and is the largest tributary of the Heilong River (Amur), flowing about 1,927 km from Changbai Mountains through the Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces.
		The Nen River drains the northern Manchurian Plain.
		In November 2005, the river was contaminated with benzene, leading to a shutdown of Harbin's water supply and threats of a Russian lawsuit against China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Songhua_River (337 words)

	Beijiang River: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river),...
		The pearl river (pinyin: zh jing) is chinas third longest river (2,200 km, after the yangtze river and the huang he),...
		The tarim river (mandarin dayan) is the principal river of the xinjiang uygur autonomous region in the peoples republic of china....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/be/beijiang_river.htm (544 words)

	Songhua articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Songhua SONGHUA [Songhua] or Sungari, river of NE China, c.1,150 mi (1,850 km) long, rising in the Changbai Mts., Jilin prov., and flowing generally north, through Heilongjiang prov., to the Amur River on the China-Russia border.
		It is the chief port on the lower reaches of the Songhua River.
		It was bordered on the south by the Songhua River and crossed by the Nen
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/43778.html (397 words)

	Jilin City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The alias name is also because of the Songhua River surrounding almost the whole city.
		Jilin City is situated in hilly area near the Songhua River.
		It is a result of when water vapor rises up from the warm Songhua River to meet the cold -20 °C night air, causing the crystalisation of water vapour on willows branches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jilin_City (251 words)

	China investing $3B to clean up river - Boston.com
		An elderly Chinese man jumps to the Songhua River as part of the winter swimming event for the annual winter festival held in Harbin, China's Heilongjiang province, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006.
		Harbin residents enjoying the city's giant sculptures made from ice from the Songhua River is an annual tradition _ even six weeks after a toxic spill polluted the river and disrupted running water to millions of people.
		In Hunan province, also in central China, cadmium leaked into a tributary of the Yangtze River during a routine cleaning of wastewater drain pipes, said an official at the province's environmental protection bureau who would not give her name because she was not authorized to talk to the media.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/01/08/china_to_spend_3_billion_to_clean_river (676 words)

	SUMMARY
		As the Songhua River merges with the Amur River in Russia, the chemical spill then moved toward the Russian border and is expected to hit the Russian city of Khabarovsk on December 25.
		The study focused on the transboundary Blagoveshchensk-Khabarovsk sector of the river under the influence of its three main tributaries: the rivers of Zeya and Bureya (Russia) and the Songhua River, Heilongjiang Province, China.
		Presently, the Songhua River flows at a speed of 1.3-1.5 km an hour, while the speed of the chemical spill is slower.
	www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bisdoc/0512chinaspill.htm (1136 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| China admits toxic spill is threat to city's water
		A river of toxic water was coursing towards one of China's biggest cities last night, threatening to contaminate local pipes and forcing millions of residents to prepare frantically for four days without water supplies.
		Toxic fears spread hundreds of miles along the Songhua river from Heilongjiang province across the Russian border, but the panic was most intense in Harbin itself, where local media said crowds were fleeing the city through the railway station and airport.
		The toxins were released into the Songhua river on November 13 by an explosion at a chemical plant hundreds of miles upstream in Jilin province.
	www.guardian.co.uk /frontpage/story/0,16518,1649500,00.html (896 words)

	Harbin, Regent Tour China
		The most beautiful natural scenery is found along the Songhua River in the northern part of the city, extending some 10 kilometers.
		On the north side of the river is the Sun Island Tourist Zone.
		The banks of Songhua River and the island found in the middle are ideal natural tourist attractions and sun bathing areas.
	www.regenttour.com /chinaplanner/hrb/hrb-sights-songhuariver.htm (186 words)

	Effects of China's Songhua River Chemical Spill Still Emerging
		Two months after the Songhua River transboundary chemical spill, one of the largest in a river system anywhere in the world in recent years, more study is needed to determine its environmental and human health effects, a United Nations team has concluded.
		Since much of the river is covered by ice, this problem is limited during the winter but it has a potential to be of concern during the spring when the ice melts, the team said.
		Aquatic toxicity studies of organisms found in the Songhua River should be undertaken using the range of chemicals that were introduced to the river through this accident, the UNEP team recommends.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jan2006/2006-01-13-05.asp (1398 words)

	Songhua - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Songhua river, northeastern China, 1,850 km (1,150 mi) long, comprising an important tributary of the Amur.
		Yichun, city in Heilongjiang (Heilungkiang) Province, in northeastern China, at the confluence of two headstreams of the Songhua River.
		Jiamusi, also Chia-mu-ssu or Kiamusze, city, northeastern China, in Heilongjiang Province, an industrial center on the Songhua River, near the...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Songhua.html (85 words)

	Songhua River - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Songhua River
		River in northeast China, which joins the Amur River on the Russian frontier; length 2,308 km/1,433 mi.
		The Songhua rises near the North Korean frontier in the Changbai Mountains.
		It is joined by the River Nen in its upper reaches, and then flows northeast to join the Amur River at Tongjiang, in Heilongjiang, southwest of the Amur's confluence with the Ussuri.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Songhua+River (138 words)

	Songhua River pollution stretch moves slower, riparian governments ready to guarantee water safety(12/01/05) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The river is now frozen over in parts and this is slowing the passing of the chemicals, chiefly composed of nitrobenzene.
		The government of Yilan County has shut down all the water gathering channels from the Songhua River and keeps on a strict polluted water disposal in the large enterprises which still have to use the water from the polluted river.
		He said the government must clearly see that the situation is still very serious for the cities at the lower reach of Songhua River with a stretching pollution belt and the still high pollutant density.
	www.china-embassy.org /eng/xw/t224231.htm (513 words)

	Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
		River merges into Russia's Amur River), and environmental toxicologists warned that the aftereffects of the incident could last for years as the chemical entered the food chain.
		Deputy general manager of the CNPC, Zeng Yukang, had earlier made an apology on behalf of the CNPC to residents along the Songhua River for the pollution of the city's water source, saying that it is CNPC's duty to help treat the pollution.
		The Songhua River, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, suffered major water pollution as a result of a blast on November 13.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China_Business/GK30Cb06.html (1314 words)

	Zhang Han-Hui and "On the Songhua River"
		The Songhua River runs through the Northeast of China and signifies the large area that was taken from the Chinese people by Japanese invaders in the beginning of the Japanese Invasion.
		The best known song of the 1930s and the 1940s to all Chinese of that generation was "Songhua Jiang Shang" (On the Songhua River), written for vocal solo, and set in the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Chinese Northeast.
		"On the Songhua River" sings about the enormous natural resource in the Chinese Northeast, and describes the huge pain Japanese occupation of Shenyang on the Eighteenth of September ("Jiu Yi Ba") had inflicted on the Chinese population.
	www.chinesemusic.net /zhang.htm (709 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » China to spend 1.2 billion dollars cleaning up Songhua river
		The accident led to the spillage of 100 tonnes of the carcinogens benzene and nitrobenzene into the river, a tributary of the Heilong river which in turn flows into major waterways in Russia's far east.
		The PetroChina was spill was also just the highest-profile accident along the Songhua, with the river and the surrounding environment suffering for decades from heavy industrial pollution.
		The cities along the Songhua river have historically been part of China's industrial heartland, even before the People's Republic was established in 1949.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6NDEGT?OpenDocument (497 words)

	China commits $3 billion for river - The Boston Globe
		BEIJING -- China will invest more than $3 billion over the next five years to clean up the Songhua River, a key source of drinking water for tens of millions of people that was polluted in November by a toxic spill that flowed into Russia, reports said yesterday.
		The announcement follows a Nov. 13 explosion at a chemical plant that spewed benzene into the Songhua, polluting the river and disrupting running water to millions of people in China and Russia, where the toxic slick arrived late last month.
		In Hunan Province, also in central China, cadmium leaked into a tributary of the Yangtze River during a routine cleaning of waste water drain pipes, said an official at the province's environmental protection bureau who would not give her name because she was not authorized to talk to the media.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/01/09/china_commits_3_billion_for_river (589 words)

	WaterWare River basin management information system
		The massive benzene spill at Jilin on the Songhuajiang, China, in November 2005 is used as a test case for the SPILL dynamic water quality model.
		Khabarovsk is situated downstream of the confluence of the Songhua river and the Amur, which should further dilute the toxic load.
		The water from the Songhua River used by the city's water supply will be purified with active carbon after the polluted water has passed Harbin.
	www.ess.co.at /WATERWARE/CHINA/spill.html (533 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Watchdog: Pollution Levels Safe After Ice Melts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Benzene-related chemicals, which were the main pollutants of the spill, remain at a safe level in the Songhua River in Northeast China and the Heilong River, the border river between China and Russia, during the spring thawing period, according to a statement released by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA).
		Both rivers have now thawed, but the benzene, nitrobenzene and aniline levels of the two rivers do not exceed the national standards of both China and Russia, the SEPA statement said.
		The Songhua River, a tributary of the Heilong River, which is also called the Amur River in Russia, was heavily polluted after an explosion upstream at a chemical plant on November 13 in Jilin City, capital of Jilin Province.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/494721/watchdog_pollution_levels_safe_after_ice_melts/?source=r_science (412 words)

	A Blog For All: The Curious Case of the Chinese Chemical Leak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Chinese government is ordering two reservoirs to discharge water into the Songhua River in order to speed the process of pushing the benzene and chemical laden spill past the city of Harbin.
		The discharged water flux from a reservoir at the upstream of Nenjiang River, tributary of the Songhua River, was also increased, Xinhua news agency reported.
		An official with the Ministry of Water Resources said the water flow of the mainstream of the Songhua River is quite slow, as the river is in a dry and frozen season.
	lawhawk.blogspot.com /2005/11/curious-case-of-chinese-chemical-leak.html (859 words)

	Heilongjiang articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Heilongjiang HEILONGJIANG [Heilongjiang] or Heilungkiang [Chinfl dragon river (the Amur province (1994 est.
		It is connected by rail with Harbin, Shenyang (Mukden), and Dalian (Dairen) and is a processing center for soybeans, grain, and sugar beets.
		Argun ARGUN [Argun], Mandarin Ergun, river, 950 mi (1,529 km) long, rising in the Da Hinggan Mts., Heilongjiang prov., NE China, as the Hailar River and flowing W to the Russian border, then NE along the Russian-China frontier, where it joins the Shilka River to form the Amur.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable/21201.html (410 words)

	Chinese Petrochemical Explosion Spills Toxics in Songhua River
		The Songhua River, which supplies drinking water to the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, has been contaminated with toxic chemicals from an explosion at an upstream petrochemical plant, the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) confirmed Wednesday.
		The Songhua River is a tributary of the Heilong River on the border between the Russian Far East and China.
		Environmentalists in Russia are monitoring the Amur River, which is fed by the Songhua River, and is the main water source for Khabarovsk, one of the largest cities in Russia’s Far East.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/nov2005/2005-11-25-01.asp (800 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Yellow Snow Fell on Russia's Far East
		The Songhua River water pollution incident, caused by a chemical plant explosion in Jilin Province, China that occurred about two months ago is being brought to attention again by Russian media.
		The toxic water from the Jilin expolsion was carried from the Songhua River into Russia's Amur River.
		According to Russian experts, the scale of damage from the toxic Songhua River water will not be known until the ice in the Amur River thaws.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-2-28/38754.html (401 words)

	Helping Bring Clean Water to Harbin and Clean up the Songhua River
		AS MILLIONS of people in the city of Harbin in the People's Republic of China (PRC) struggle to recover from the recent toxic spill in Songhua River, ADB is working on a number of projects that will help provide them with a cleaner and more reliable source of water.
		Contaminated with a number of organic chemicals, heavy metals, and other conventional pollutants, the river is considered unsuitable for municipal domestic water use.
		A separate technical assistance project, backed by a $1 million grant from ADB approved in 2003, is helping the Government to more broadly address the river basin's pollution problem.
	www.adb.org /Media/Articles/2005/8899_PRC_water (642 words)

	Harbin Disaster Warns Cities of Water Shortage \| Asia Water Wire
		SEPA has called the water contamination of the Songhua River, caused by the blast, “a serious environment pollution accident.” But critics are urging the government to draw lessons from the event and handle such environment crises in a more open and transparent manner.
		During his inspection of the polluted river in Harbin before Harbin resumed water supply on Nov. 27, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged that people responsible for the Songhua River pollution must be punished.
		The Heilongjiang River is known as the Amur River in Russia.
	www.asiawaterwire.net /node/127 (1400 words)

	Fears about Songhua settled - Wikinews
		Following an explosion in November of 2005, China's Songhua river was contaminated with nitrobenzene and similar chemicals.
		Concerns of residents that the possible release of remnants of nitrobenzene that may have been trapped in the ice and in the sediment might occur and endanger the safe utilization of the river after the influence of a period of being frozen have been settled.
		These characteristics and the inevitable high flow rate of the river once the winter's ice melts in the spring will allow the water to be safe said Zhou, referencing an interim assessment of the river spill done by a consortium which began the assessment on December 13 2005.
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/Fears_about_Songhua_settled (422 words)

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