Editing Heilongjiang (section)

===Industry===
Heilongjiang is part of [[northeast China]], the country's traditional industrial base. Industry is focused upon coal, petroleum, lumber, machinery, and food.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}  Due to its location, Heilongjiang is also an important gateway for trade with [[Russia]]. Since a wave of privatization led to the closure of uncompetitive factories in the 1990s, Manchuria has suffered from stagnation.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} As a result, the government has started the [[Northeast Area Revitalization Plan|Revitalize Northeast China]] campaign to deal with this problem, promoting the private sectors as the preferred method of [[Chinese economic reform|economic reform]].{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

[[Petroleum]] is of great importance in Heilongjiang, and the [[Daqing oilfields]] are an important source of [[Petroleum industry in China|petroleum for China]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Zhan |first=Jing Vivian |title=China's Contained Resource Curse: How Minerals Shape State-Capital-Labor Relations |date=2022 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-1-009-04898-9 |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom |pages=39}}</ref> Coal, gold, and [[graphite]] are other important [[Mineral exploration in China|minerals to be found]] in Heilongjiang. Heilongjiang also has great potential for [[wind power]], with potential capacity for 134 gigawatts of power production.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Zhang|first1=Yuning|last2=Tang|first2=Ningning|last3=Niu|first3=Yuguang|last4=Du|first4=Xiaoze|date=2016-12-01|title=Wind energy rejection in China: Current status, reasons and perspectives|journal=Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews|volume=66|pages=322–344|doi=10.1016/j.rser.2016.08.008|issn=1364-0321|doi-access=free|bibcode=2016RSERv..66..322Z }}</ref>