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  Jiangxi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jiangxi borders Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to the northwest.
Mountains surround Jiangxi on three sides, with the Mufu Mountains, Jiuling Mountains, and Luoxiao Mountains on the west; Huaiyu Mountains and Wuyi Mountains on the east; and the Jiulian Mountains and Dayu Mountains in the south.
Jiangxi is the main area of concentration of the Gan varieties of Chinese, spoken over most of the northern two-thirds of the province.
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 Jiangxi Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Jiangxi is dominated by Poyang Lake and is enclosed by hills to the south, west, and east.
Jiangxi was the revolutionary base of the early Communist movement.
Jiangxi is an important major producer of copper, gold, lead, lithium, tungsten, uranium and zinc.
www.paulnoll.com /China/Provinces/Province-Jiangxi.html   (103 words)

  
 Jiangxi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Yuzhang commandery (豫章;) was established in northern Jiangxi at the beginning of the (Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy) Han Dynasty, possibly before the death of (additional info and facts about Xiang Yu) Xiang Yu in 202 BC.
Jiangxi acquired (more or less) its modern borders during the (The imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644) Ming Dynasty after (A province in southern China) Guangdong was separated out.
The 11 prefecture-level divisions of Jiangxi are subdivided into 99 county-level divisions (19 (A region marked off for administrative or other purposes) districts, 10 (additional info and facts about county-level cities) county-level cities, 70 (additional info and facts about counties) counties, and 1 (additional info and facts about autonomous county) autonomous county).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ji/jiangxi.htm   (2576 words)

  
 Jiangxi
Geography: Jiangxi Province is in the eastern part of China, to the south of the middle-lower reaches of the Yangzte River.
The population history of Jiangxi can be divided into five periods: 1950 - 1952 was a period of fast population growth with an annual increase rate of 8.01%, 1953 - 1959 was the first peak of population increase with an annual rate of 2.56%; 1960 - 1962 was the trough of population growth.
Although the population of Jiangxi is the adult type, the proportion of the elderly population is increasing at a rapid rate.
www.unescap.org /esid/psis/population/database/chinadata/jiangxi.htm   (2169 words)

  
 Jiangxi Province China - China tourist & travel guide for Jiangxi Province, China
Jiangxi province, called 'Gan' for short, lies to the south of the Yangzi River valley.
Jiangxi's countryside varies from flat plains in the north to beautiful mountains in the east, south, and west.
Jiangxi province is a major producer of rape, timber, and fresh-water fish.
www.orientaltravel.com /province/Jiangxi.htm   (282 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Jiangxi, China (Chinese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
In Jiangxi's fertile soil and mild climate agriculture flourishes; the growing season is 9 to 11 months long, and more than one third of the area is cultivated.
Jiangxi is an important source of tungsten; it also has high-grade coking coal (near Pingxiang) and kaolin, which supplies the ancient porcelain industry of Jingdezhen.
The Chinese Communist movement began (1927) in Jiangxi; the province was a stronghold for the Communists until they were dislodged in 1934.
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 Jiangxi Province
The northern part is plain Jiangxi has an area of 166,900 square kilometers and a population of 37.7 million.
Jiangxi is one of the main grain producers, and known as a fertile "land of fish and rice." It is also famous for oil crops, cotton, flax, sugarcane, tea, and fruits.
Jiangxi is famous for countless places of interest nad tourist attractions, such as the magnificent Mt. Lushan in the north, and Mt. Jinggang, a sacred place of the Chinese revolution, in the south.
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 Adoption in China - Brochure
Jiangxi Province in southeast China covers an area of 166,900 square kilometers and has a population of 36.95 million.
In addition, Jiangxi was the birthplace of Zhu Xi, a famous scholar of the Middle Ages; Tang Xianzu, known as "Shakespeare of the East;" and Song Yingxing, the most accomplished scientist of the 17th century.
The Jiangxi Guixi Smeltery, the largest copper producer in China, is the first of its kind in China equipped with the advanced computer-controlled flash-smelting technology imported from abroad.
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 JIANGXI PROVINCE (tdctrade.com)
Jiangxi - abbreviated as Gan(贛)- lies on the southern bank in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River bordering Fujian and Zhejiang.
The province is rich in metal deposits including copper, uranium, plutonium, tungsten, gold, silver, lead and zinc, all of which rank the first in China.
Jiangxi has benefited greatly from the relocation of military industry from the coastal regions to inland provinces in the 1960s-70s.
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 Illuminating China's Provinces,Municipalities & Autonomous Regions-china.org.cn
Jiangxi, also called "Gan" for short, is one of China's inland provinces.
It is located in the southeastern part of the country, on the southern bank of the Yangtse River, between 24'29-30'04' north latitude and 113'34-118'28' east longitude.
It borders Zhejiang and Fujian provinces in the east, Guangdong Province in the south, Hunan Province in the west and Hubei and Anhui provinces in the north, covering a total area of 166,900 square kilometers.
www.china.org.cn /english/features/43591.htm   (83 words)

  
 China Province - Region, Regional   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Brief Introduction: Jiangxi Province lies on the southern bank of the Yangtze River's lower and middle sections.
It is bordered by hills and mountains, the land generally sloping towards the Poyang Lake in the north.
The Mufu, Jiuling, Wugong and Wanyang mountains lie in the west; the Dayuling and Jiulian mountains in the south; the Huaiyu and Wuyi mountains in the east; and Lushan Mountain in the north.
www.chinatravelsmart.com /province/content_815398.shtml   (336 words)

  
 Jiangxi: My Home Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In most of Jiangxi Province the natives speak dialects of Gan (or Kan) Chinese, which is closely related to Cantonese.
The dialects spoken in the extreme west and south of Jiangxi are similar sounding, but are classified as Xiang (or Hsiang) Chinese in the west and Hakka Chinese in the south.
In the far north of Jiangxi the native dialects are closer to the Mandarin Chinese spoken across the river in Anhui Province.
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 The Features of Jiangxi Province
The whole province has 2,800 cubic meters of water resources per capita, which is more than the whole country's average level by73%.
Having been the birth place of Taoism and the third school of Buddhism, Jiangxi now has the Donglin Temple in the Lushan Mountain, the Jiujiang Nengren Temple, the Zhenru Temple in the Yunshan Mountain, the Jingju Temple in Ji'an, the Tianshi Mansion in the Dragon and Tiger Mountain, which are altogether five key state temples.
In 1931, the first session of the National Congress of Chinese Soviets were held in Ruijin south of the province, which declared the establishment of the Chinese Soviet provisional Central Government of China which heralded the birth of the New China.
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 Jiangxi
Jiangxi (江西; pinyin: Jiāngxī WG: Chiang-hsi) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River's lower and middle sections.
In the Yuan Dynasty, the two subcircuits are separated into thirteen subcircuits and combined into Jiangxi Xing-Province (行省), which also included the majority of the modern Guangdong.
Jiangxi is the birthplace of the Gan language-dialect, one of the Chinese languages.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/jiangxi   (654 words)

  
 Jiangxi China : General Information and Travel Map of Jiangxi Province of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The province, along with Fujian and Hunan, has also long been a center for Tea production, and many of the tea leaves harvested here are of the finest quality in China.
The transportation of this Jiangxi province depends to a great extent on its railways, roads and waterways.
Jiangxi province is also famous for its local traditional products: ceramics made in Jingdezhen, porcelain pictures made in Nanchang, Qianshan bamboo handcraft, Lushan tea, Jinggang mountain bamboo shoots, Nanfeng sweet oranges, and Nanan ducks.
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 Jiangxi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Jiangxi (; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the People's Republic of China, spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south.
Yuzhang commandery (豫章;) was established in northern Jiangxi at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, possibly before the death of Xiang Yu in 202 BC.
Jiangxi first belonged to Wu (吳;), then to Southern Tang (南唐).
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/Jiangxi.htm   (1682 words)

  
 Country Profile:Anhui Province --People's Daily Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Jiangxi Province lies on the southern bank of the Yangtze River's lower and middle sections.
With a developed farming sector, Jiangxi is one of the country's major grain producers.
Jiangxi is one of the southern provinces with large coal deposits.
english.peopledaily.com.cn /data/province/jiangxi.html   (224 words)

  
 Jiangxi on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Traditionally known as Gan, Jiangxi was ruled by the Chou dynasty (722-481 BC); it received its present name only under the Southern Sung dynasty (AD 1127-1280).
The province, whose present boundaries date from the Ming dynasty, passed under Manchu rule in 1650.
Jiangxi MCC of China and Nokia Sign Contracts for GSM Network Expansion; Agreements Will Extend Radio-access Coverage to Rural Areas of Jiangxi Province.
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 Judge of Jiangxi Province High Court, Falun Gong Practitioner: Dead in Custody | Clearharmony - Falundafa in Europe
Hu Qingyun, the former department head of the Jiangxi Province High Court, died in the custody of Chinese authorities earlier this year.
After receiving treatment at five major hospitals in Jiangxi and Shanghai, doctors concluded that he would not be able to live for more than three months.
After one year of illegal detention, Hu was sentenced to a seven-year prison term on January 10, 2001, by the No. 1 Regional Court in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province.
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 Jiangxi Province: China Travel Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Jiangxi province is situated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Jiangxi province got its name during the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907) and because the Gan River runs through this province from north to south, it is also called Gan for short.
In addition, Jiangxi is one of the ancient tea-producing areas in China.
www.travelchinaguide.com /cityguides/jiangxi   (645 words)

  
 Drought hits Jiangxi Province
Drought in Jiangxi Province is affecting more than 202,000 hectares of crops and making it difficult to supply enough drinking water to 620,000 people and 260,000.
The latest statistics from the provincial headquarters for flood control and drought relief show that average rainfall in the province over the past four months was 374 millimeters, only 88 percent of that in the same time in previous years.
The total volume of water held in water conservancy projects in the province is only 10.5 billion cubic meters, 580 million cubic meters less than the average of the past years.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-10/30/content_387063.htm   (260 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Growing Populations, Changing Landscapes: Studies from India, China, and the United States (2001)
Because the Jitai Basin is a less-developed region within Jiangxi Province, even in 1996 the GDP per capita for the Jitai Basin was more than 1,000 yuan lower than the average for Jiangxi Province as a whole.
Because Jiangxi Province is one of the grain bases of China, the government shipped grain from the Jitai Basin to meet demand elsewhere and left very little for the local population.
According to the per capita purchasing patterns in the urban and rural areas of Jiangxi Province in 1989 and 1996, both grain and vegetable consumption decreased, while the consumption of food oil, meat (pork, beef, mutton, and poultry), eggs, fish, and wine increased.
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 USATODAY.com - Chinese province launches ID requirement for Net cafe users   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese province has required Internet cafe users to buy access cards that identify them to police, further tightening official monitoring of who uses the Internet and what they do online, a police spokesman said Monday.
The system was installed in all 3,200 Internet cafes in the central province of Jiangxi last month, said the spokesman, who works with the police computer crime division in the provincial capital of Nanchang.
Jiangxi's system requires customers to register their names, ages and addresses, information which is then loaded into a police database, the police spokesman said.
www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2002-11-05-china-crackdown_x.htm   (401 words)

  
 Mineralogical Record: Stibnite from the Wuling Antimony Mine Jiangxi Province, China
Other deposits are found in the provinces of Guangdong, Guizhou, Yunnan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Gansu, Jilin, Shaanxi, Julin, the Guansgxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Jiangxi Province (Anonymous, 1980).
The "Wining" transliteration is based upon the pronunciation in use at the mine, in the dialect which is prevalent in the surrounding areas of northern Jiangxi, southeast Hubei, and northeast Hunan provinces.
The Wuling antimony mine is situated on the southern bank of the Xiushui [= Hsiu Shui] River, near the small hamlet of Qingjiang, 40 km southwest of the city of Wining (Wuning), in northern Jiangxi Province, China.
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 19104   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Mekele, July 28 (ENA)--The Tigray State and the Chinese province of Jiangxi signed a cooperation agreement in the fields of development and trade here on Friday.
Jiangxi, located in Southern China, has a total population of 43 million.
The province is one of the major rice growing areas in china.
www.telecom.net.et /~ena/archivenglish/July00/19104.2907.htm   (156 words)

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