宁安市情简介(2019) [Ning'an Introduction (2019)]. www.ningan.gov.cn (in Chinese). Ning'an Municipal People's Government. 2020-02-21. Archived from the original on 2021-06-19. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
Reardon-Anderson, James (2005). Reluctant pioneers: China's expansion northward, 1644-1937. Stanford University Press. p. 24. ISBN0-8047-5167-6.. When quoting Du Halde, Reardon-Anderson implies that the Jesuit went to the region personally in the 1730s. That wasn't actually the case, as du Halde was merely the editor of a report by the Jesuits who had travelled down the Amur in 1709, one of many reports from which his multi-volume work was compiled.
宁安市情简介(2019) [Ning'an Introduction (2019)]. www.ningan.gov.cn (in Chinese). Ning'an Municipal People's Government. 2020-02-21. Archived from the original on 2021-06-19. Retrieved 2021-06-19.