More than two years. Official website shows that the Education Bureau of Songbei District implements the time-limited policy of purchasing houses and settling down. Since 2023, freshmen in Fenghua School Campus, Harbin New District Normal School and Harbin Experimental School have implemented the enrollment policy of buying houses and settling down two years in advance, that is, freshmen enter school on July 20 every year, and it takes two years or more to buy houses and settle down. Songbei District is a municipal district of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, located in the west of Harbin.