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In its history, the province is strongly influenced by the minority groups. As early
as the 10th century, Qidan people invaded into this region and established Liao Dynasty.
Two centuries later, Mongolians powered over and later founded the Yuan Dynasty. During
the Ming Dynasty, Han immigration from the south to this region was enforced to enhance the
central administration. But such effort did not stop the Ming Dynasty from being wiped out
by the again north-grown-up Manchus, who later founded China"s last feudal empire. Around
the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, Russia first set foot on this land.
They built the South Manchurian Railway to facilitate the transport of the output or the
raw material of the heavy industry. With the defeating in the Russo-Japanese War, Russians
retreated reluctantly and Japanese substituted and dominated over this province, actually
almost over Northeast China, by setting a puppet state of Manchukuo. During the WW II, the
province was burdensomely turned into a backyard military factory. The Communist
controlled Liaoning after 1948, and the land contributed tremendously to the whole country
as the No.1 heavy industry base, which played a critical role to the stabilization of the
newly-founded regime. Now privilege policy is favored, especially to the coastal area,
economic zones are set up and the booming of the economomy adds vigor to this lumbersome
heavy industry base. Liaoning is a place with blended cultures. There are as many as 43 minorities, besides
the Han, with 16% of the total population of the province, living in this
region, such as the Manchu, the Mongolian, the Hui and the Korean. |
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