哈尔滨,是中国最早纪念“五一”国际劳动节的城市。自从1898年,沙俄在中国东北地区修建东清铁路以来,在山东、河北以及铁路沿线农村,雇用了大批破产的农民,并有大批俄国工人来到铁路上做工。1907年,沙俄将哈尔滨临时总工厂扩建,改为东清铁路哈尔滨总工厂(今中国北车哈尔滨轨道交通装备有限责任公司前身),中国工人总数就达2000之多,他们是哈尔滨早期工人队伍的骨干。 Harbin is China’s earliest city to commemorate May Day International Labor Day. Since 1898, when Czarist Russia built the Dongqing Railway in the northeast region of China, a large number of bankrupt farmers were hired in rural areas along Shandong, Hebei and the railway. A large number of Russian workers came to work on the railway. In 1907, Tsarist Russia changed the total temporary factory in Harbin to the total factory in Harbin of Dongqing Railway (now the predecessor of China National Railcar Harbin Rail Transit Equipment Co., Ltd.). The total number of workers in China reached as many as 2,000 and they were the early workers in Harbin backbone.