Taching

That there was no 'oil boom town' atmosphere at Taching, no bars, brothels or night clubs doing a roaring trade as technicians and oil drillers with fat pay cheques swaggered in from lonely drilling sites for a long week-end, obviously did not surprise us. That concept of 'Great Celebration' left for Taiwan with the Kuomintang. It was difficult at first to locate Taching city - an oilfield capital.

1976, Wilfred Burchett, China: The Quality of Life, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 114

A 221‐mile oil pipeline has been completed from the North China port of Chinhuangtao to Peking, the official Hsinhua news agency reported today. Hsinhua said it is part of a 937‐mile pipeline from the Taching oil field in northeast China.

1975 July 9 [1975 July 8], “China Completes Pipeline”, in The New York Times, sourced from TOKYO, (AP), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2024, page 64

Mainland China's petroleum industry enjoyed spectacular growth between 1960 and 1978, when the Taching (Daqing) oilfield in Heilungkiang (Heilongjiang) Province began to operate on a large-scale basis.

1993, Bih-jaw Lin, James T. Myers, editors, Forces for Change in Contemporary China, University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274