Ulmus pseudopropinqua Wang & Li, occasionally known in the United States as the Harbin spring elm, is a small deciduous tree found only in Heilongjiang, the northeasternmost province in China.

[1] The tree has not been studied comprehensively, and it has been speculated it may be a natural hybrid of Ulmus davidiana var.

[2] Regarded as a handsome tree, U. pseudopropinqua grows to a height of 10 m. The wing-less twigs bear small ovate to subovate dark-green leaves, < 5.5 cm long by 2.5 cm broad considered similar to those U. davidiana var.

[1] Resistant to Dutch elm disease,[3] U. pseudopropinqua has also been found to be among the least suitable species for feeding and reproduction by elm leaf beetle Xanthogaleruca luteola [3] [4] and highly preferred for feeding by the Japanese beetle Popillia japonica[5] in the United States.

The species is one of a range of rare Chinese elms evaluated as landscape plants at the Morton Arboretum, Illinois.