Aihui District


Aihui District is an administrative district and the seat of the prefecture-level city of Heihe, Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China. It is located on the right bank of the Amur River, across which is Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast, Russia. According to the prefectural government, the land area of Aihui District is
, the population is 197,240 people.

Administrative divisions

Aihui is divided into four subdistricts, three towns, five township, and three ethnic townships:
Subdistricts:
Towns:
Townships:
About 18,500 persons belong to ethnic minorites.
Dawujia village, home of some of the last remaining native Manchu language speakers, is located in Aihui District.

History

The district's Aigun Town, and for more than two centuries since its founding in the 1680s was one of the most important towns of Northern Manchuria.
In 1913 Aigun became the county seat of the newly created Aigun County, which was in December 1956 renamed Aihui County. On November 15, 1980, Heihe City was created, and on June 6, 1983, Aihui County was abolished, being merged into the Heihe City.
To further complicate the situation, in 1993 the former Heihe City was reorganized into Aihui District, while the former Heihe Prefecture became Heihe Prefecture-level City. This administrative division has been in effect ever since.