Harbin has increased its annual beer production capacity to over 1 million tons and has become a giant in China's beer industry after its successful reform and listing on the Hong Kong stock market.
The history of Harbin beer dates back to 1900, when Jan Wróblewski,[1][2] a Pole from Tarczyn, then located in the Russian Partition of Poland,[3] founded a brewery in Northeast China (then called Manchuria), which he named after himself.
The initial objective of the Brewery was to supply Russians working on the Trans-Manchurian Railway project started in 1898.
Through the 1960s, the company focused on investing to improve its technology, and in 1973 it installed its first sterilization machine in Heilongjiang Province.
[4] It uses European and Chinese “Qindao Dahua” hops, two-row malt, and German yeast.