Spirit is abstraction and sublimation from a special kind of consciousness. Improvements of a man, a country and a nation cannot be sustained without spirit. Heilongjiang’s excellent spirit forms when people from different nations are in revolution, development and construction. It develops in the course of tens of generations of Heilongjiang people reform the objective and subjective world over a long period. Heilongjiang’s excellent spirit is to “be patriotic and strive, difficult pioneering work, be pragmatic; bear the overall situation in mind and a selfless devotion”, represented by “Chuangguandong Spirit (brave the journey to the Northeast)”, “Daqing Spirit”, “Iron Man Spirit” and “Beidahuang Spirit”. Heilongjiang’s excellent spirit mainly embodies the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of time along with innovation displaying logical thinking, noble character and the strong ambition of Heilongjiang People.

Daqing Spirit

The Daqing Spirit formed in the early 1960s which was a special historical time for the battle of oil in China. It evolved when workers in the oil field of Daqing worked in extremely hard conditions. It is enriched and developed in the historical course when constructing the Daqing Oil Field. It concentrates fine tradition and style of the Chinese nation and Chinese working class and highly summarizes the spirit of independence, self-reliance and entrepreneurship of the oilmen in Daqing.