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Xiangfang District, Harbin — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Green roofs top the 1925 depot at Xiangfang railway station, Harbin's first, in Xiangfang District, an inland quarter of factories and campuses.
About Xiangfang District
Where to stay in Xiangfang District
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Xiangfang District sits southeast of central Harbin, and five Harbin Metro Line 2 stations stand inside it, ending at Meteorological Observatory. Line 3 crosses it at Zhujiang Road. A room near Northeast Agricultural University station or Gongbin Road sits a short ride from Xiangfang railway station and from the Heilongjiang Forest Botanical Garden at 105 Haping Road.
If you have come for the campuses, Northeast Forestry University keeps its main grounds at 26 Hexing Road, on the district's western edge.
About Xiangfang District
What are the main landmarks in Xiangfang District?
Xiangfang District keeps Harbin's first railway station. The station's depot of 1925 stands at 118 Tongzhan Street under green roofs, one storey high, its long front broken by tall arched windows. A carved boulder in the square outside Xiangfang railway station sets out the history.
The Heilongjiang Forest Botanical Garden opened to visitors in 1988 at 105 Haping Road, and the forestry ministry made it Harbin National Forest Park four years later. Northeast Agricultural University keeps its grounds at 600 Changjiang Road, Northeast Forestry University at 26 Hexing Road, and a statue of Zhao Shangzhi stands in Shangzhi Park.
What is the history of Xiangfang District?
Xiangfang District is named for an incense workshop kept by a man from Laoting in Hebei. Russian engineers put the Chinese Eastern Railway's first Harbin station on this ground in 1898, well back from the Songhua River and its floods. They called it Harbin Station until the newer station in Nangang District took the name.
The present name dates from 1924. Manchukuo's city office made Xiangfang a district on 1 July 1938, and Soviet-aided plants for turbines, boilers, and bearings rose across the quarter through the 1950s. The State Council merged the neighbouring Dongli District into Xiangfang on 15 August 2006.
Where is Xiangfang District?
Xiangfang District covers southeastern Harbin, bounded on the north by Daowai District, on the west by Nangang District, and on the southeast by Acheng District.
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Updated September 2026