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On [[CIIC:Selected anniversaries/November 14, 2009|November 14]], 1860, [[Qing Dynasty]] imperial commissioner [[Yixin]] and Russian envoy Nikolai Ignatyev signed the '''Treaty of Peking'''. The treaty contained 15 articles. Its main contents were as follows:

First, to confirm the [[Treaty of Aigun]] (1858);
second, the originally jointly-administrated boundary territory covering some 400,000 sq. km, east to the [[Ussuri River]], including [[Sakhalin Island]], was to be transferred to Russia;
and third, the original Chinese internal lake Zaysan and Te Muer were to be set as the Sino-Russian western border.

In this way, Russian occupied a bulk of land in the east over [[Lake Balkhash]] and also furnished a theoretical basis for the further misappropriation of the eastern and southern part of the lake. By the [[Second Opium War]], the Russians had looted more than 1 million sq. km of Chinese territory.

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Treaty of Peking - Revision history

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