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Description: province of central China, located around the Gan River south of the Yangtze. Neighbors: Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Hubei, Hunan and Zhejiang. Categories: province of China and locality. Location: South-central China, China, East Asia, Asia. View on OpenStreetMap.
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Jiangxi, sheng (province) of southeast-central China. It is bounded by the provinces of Hubei and Anhui to the north, Zhejiang and Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, and Hunan to the west. On the map its shape resembles an inverted pear. The port of Jiujiang, some 430 miles (690 km) upstream from Shanghai and 135 miles (220 km) downstream from Wuhan (Hubei), is the province’s principal outlet on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang). The provincial capital is Nanchang.
The name Jiangxi literally means “West of the [Yangtze] River,” although the entire province lies south of it. This seeming paradox is caused by changes made in administrative divisions throughout China’s history. In 733, under the Tang dynasty, a superprefecture named Jiangnan Xi (“Western part of South of the Yangtze”) Dao was set up, with its seat at the city of Hongzhou (now Nanchang). The present provincial name is a contraction of that name.
Topographically, Jiangxi corresponds to the drainage basin of the Gan River, which runs northeastward in descending elevation from the southern tip of the province to Lake Poyang and the Yangtze in the north. This basin is surrounded by hills and mountains that rim the province from all sides. Among the more important ranges are the Huaiyu Mountains, to the northeast; the Wuyi Mountains, to the east; the Jiulian and Dayu ranges, to the south; the Zhuguang, Wanyang (including Mount Jinggang), Wugong, and Jiuling ranges, to the west; and the Mufu and Lu ranges, to the northwest and north. A remarkable feature of these mountains is that they rise in disconnected masses and thus contain corridors for interprovincial communication, especially along the Hunan border. The mountains to the south, too, present no formidable barrier. The Meiling Pass is a broad and well-paved gap leading to Guangdong province.
Other mountains are found in the centre and north of the province. East of the Middle Gan valley are the Yu Mountains. Made up of short and moderate hills separated by a network of streams, the country traversed by this range consists of a succession of small valleys with bottomlands from 5 to 12 miles (8 to 19 km) wide. The Lu Mountains, in the north, rise sharply to some 4,800 feet (1,460 metres) from the lowlands west of Lake Poyang.
The principal river of Jiangxi is the Gan, which traverses the entire province from south to north. Its headwaters are two streams that converge to form one river at Ganzhou. Along its course this great river receives several large tributaries from the west and a lesser number of smaller tributaries from the east.
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Besides the Gan, other rivers of Jiangxi form distinct basins of their own in the northeastern and northwestern parts of the province. These include the Xin River, which rises near Yushan in the northeast and runs westward to Lake Poyang; the Chang and Le’an rivers, also in the extreme northeast of the province; and the Xiu River, which, rising in the Mufu Mountains in the northwest, drains southeastward into Lake Poyang.
The soil in the plains of northern Jiangxi is alluvial and permits intensive cultivation. The hilly lands in other parts of the province have red and yellow soils. On farms with clayey red soils, where the rains have washed away the mineral contents as well as the humus, the soil requires working over and the addition of green manure or chemical fertilizers in order to become productive.
Situated in the subtropical belt, Jiangxi has a hot and humid summer lasting more than four months, except in places with high elevation such as the Lu Mountains. High temperatures in Nanchang in July and August average 95 °F (35 °C). In winter temperature variations between north and south are greater. January temperatures in the north at times fall to 25 °F (−4 °C), while those in the south average 39 °F (4 °C). Most of the province has a growing season of 10 to 11 months, thus making possible two crops of rice. Rainfall is plentiful, particularly during May and June. Average annual rainfall is about 47 inches (1,200 mm) in the north and 60 inches (1,500 mm) in the south; in the Wuyi Mountains region it can reach 78 inches (2,000 mm).
The mountainous areas are heavily forested. The Wuyi Mountains have tracts of broad-leaved evergreen trees, as well as conifers. Lush forests in the region from Ji’an southward contain pine, fir, cedar, oak, and banyan. In many areas, few natural forests have been preserved; they have been replaced with commercial species such as tea, tung, camphor...
Jiangxi received successive waves of migration from North China through the ages. Its population is virtually all Han (Chinese); minority groups include the She, Hmong (called Miao in China), Mien (called Yao in China), and Hui (Chinese Muslim) peoples. The Hakka, descendants of a unique group of migrants from North China, have maintained their separate identity with their own dialect and social customs.
The language usually spoken is Mandarin, though the somewhat mutually intelligible Gan language (related to the Hakka language) of the lower Yangtze is also common. In the regions south of Guixi, Gan is influenced by the languages of western Fujian, and it is heavily tinged with the Cantonese language in the Dayu region, south of Ganzhou.
Most of Jiangxi’s people live in rural areas. The leading city is Nanchang. Situated on the right bank of the Gan River, a short distance before it enters Lake Poyang, Nanchang is the focal point for rail and river transport, an industrial centre, and a trading centre for agricultural products. Jiujiang, on the south bank of the Yangtze some 85 miles (140 km) north of Nanchang, is the principal port through which the province’s products are exported. Just south of Jiujiang is the beautiful resort of Guling, perched at about 3,500 feet (1,060 metres) in the Lu Mountains.
From Nanchang southward up the Gan are Ji’an, rich in literary lore and the commercial metropolis of the middle Gan valley, and Ganzhou, the centre of culture and trade in the upper Gan valley. Other cities dot the hinterland on both sides of the river. The leading city in the extreme northeast is Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of China. The vast stretch of country east and southeast of Nanchang contains many cities of historical and commercial importance, the largest of which is Fuzhou. The west and northwest of the province is a focus of heavy and light industry, of which the coal city Pingxiang, on the Hunan border, is the major centre.
Jiangxi [a] is an inland province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang . Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south ...
Jiangxi Province Map - It is Situated beside the Yangtze river, on its southern side, in its middle and lower reaches, the province of Jiangxi China spreaded across a total area of 166,900 sq km.
Jiangxi (Chinese: 江西; pinyin: Jiāngxī; Wade-Giles: Chiang-hsi; Postal map spelling: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the People's Republic of China, spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north to the hillier areas of the south.
Jiangxi is an inland province situated in the southeastern part of China with its capital city being Nanchang. It borders Zhejiang to the northeast, Anhui to the northwest, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, and Hunan to the west.
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Jul 22, 2024 · Jiangxi Province with Nanchang as the capital is located in the south bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the central part of southeast China. It borders Zhejiang and Fujian to the east, Anhui and Hubei to the north, Hunan to the west and Guangdong to the south.
