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(TAP) - Swimming enthusiast Yu Hongtao, 50, trained for months in the freezing water of the Songhua river to compete in a winter ice swimming tournament held annually in China's northern city of Harbin, known for its bitterly cold weather.

Flammability characterisation of grassland species of Songhua Jiang-Nen Jiang Plain (China) using thermal analysis.

Eco-Efficiency Analysis of Industrial Systems in the Songhua River Basin: A Decomposition Model Approach.

It is known for the Russian architecture of its inner city and as the site of a winter festival with sculptures made of ice blocks cut from the Songhua River.

The annual total precipitation over river basins was above normal in the Yellow River (111%), the Yangtze River (105%), the Pearl River (105%), and the Huaihe River (104%) but below normal in the Liaohe (84%), Songhua River (95%), and Haihe River basins (98%).

Other banks that have been hit with compliance lapses included the Agricultural Bank of China, one of the country's Big Four banks as well as Songhua Bank of South Korea and Mega International Commercial Bank of Taiwan, according to Bloomberg.

Temporal and spatial distribution of extreme temperatures across China shows that hot extremes indicate an upward trend, while cold extremes show downward trends; between 1961 and 2011, more frequent extreme temperature events were recorded in the southern area of the major grain producing region in China [13] and some trends of extreme temperature indices in the Songhua River Basin were stronger than those recorded in the Yangtze River Basin, southwestern China, and the Tibetan Plateau.

Currently, WASP model has been widely applied to different water areas, such as Mobile Bay [19], Murderkill River [20], Lake Michigan [21], and Songhua River [22].

Nearly 15,000 workers cut blocks of ice from the frozen Songhua River nearby.