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Pingfang, today a district in the outskirts of HarbinHarbin Summary

Harbin is a sub-provincial city and the capital of the Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China....
, ChinaChina

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 (in the 1930s and 1940s a part of the Japanese puppet state ManchukuoManchukuo

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), Pingfang was the headquarters of the JapanJapan

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ese Biological WarfareBiological warfare

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 Unit 731Unit 731

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 during the Japanese invasion of ChinaSecond Sino-Japanese War

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 and World War IIWorld War II Summary

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. It had an airport, railway and dungeons. Most of Pingfang was burnt by the Japanese to destroy evidence but the incinerator where the remains of victims were burnt remains and is still in use as part of a factory.
Pingfang is an industrial center of Harbin now. Hafei (a factory producing helicopters, small airplanes, minivans, and cars), Dongan (a factory producing aircraft and automobile engines), and Northeast Light Alloy Processing Plant are the three major manufactors there.

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