Churin Group

Churin Department Store in Harbin, anold picture
Ivan Yakovlevich Churin (1833 - 1895), the founder of Churin & Co,

Qiulin Group has the largest department store in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, China.

History

Qiulin Group's history goes back to 1867 when Ivan Yakovlevich Churin (October 16, 1833 - April 30, 1895), born in Irkutsk, Russia, opened a store in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur. In 1882, he established Churin & Co. (Чурин и Ко) in Khabarovsk in 1882.

As the Chinese Eastern Railway opened, Churin expanded into Harbin, establishing Qiulin Co. (Chinese: 秋林洋行). The current building of the company's department store is from 1904. Later Qiuln further expanded into Lushun and Yingkou. [1]

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Churin moved its headquarters to Harbin in 1923, and opened its branches in Dalian, Mukden, Changchun, Siping, Jilin, Heihe and Hailar in the 1930s. It, however, came under Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank's control in 1937, and under Japanese management in 1941.

After the Second World War, Churin was owned by the Soviet Union in 1947, and was returned to China in 1953. During the Cultural Revolution its name was changed to "The East Is Red" Department Store, but was changed to its original name in 1984. Qiulin Group was registerd in the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1996, and was acquired by Dalian's Dashang Group in the same year. [2] [3]

Transportation

Heilongjiang Province Museum Station (博物馆站) of Line 1 and Line 2 of Harbin Subway.

Products

Qiulin Department Store has a large food department. Especially famous are Russian-style bread, called Dalieba (大列巴) and sausage, called Hongchang (红肠), both of which they also ship to other cities in Northeast China.

Affiliates

Qiulin Group has an affiliate in Jilin City[4].

References

  1. ↑ Harbin Qiulin Group (Baidu Encyclopedia) (in Chinese)
  2. ↑ Company Overview of Harbin Churin Group Jointstock Co., Ltd. (Bloomberg)
  3. ↑ Company Info - Harbin Churin Group Jointstock Co. Ltd. (The Wall Street Journal)
  4. ↑ Jilin Province Qiulin Group (in Chinese)

See also

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