Ji'an
Ji'an
Kian | |
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Top to bottom, left to right: Ji'an city hall, the Wugong Mountains on the border with Pingxiang, the Jinggang Mountains, Ji'an Revolutionary Museum, Qingyuan District Hall | |
 Location of Ji'an City jurisdiction in Jiangxi | |
| Coordinates (Ji'an municipal government): 27°05′28″N 114°58′01″E / 27.091243°N 114.96681°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Jiangxi |
| Government | |
| • CPC Secretary | Wang Ping ( |
| • Mayor | Wang Shaoxuan ( |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 25,283 km2 (9,762 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,340 km2 (520 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,340 km2 (520 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 62 m (202 ft) |
| Population (2020 census)[1] | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 4,469,176 |
| • Density | 180/km2 (460/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 643,399 |
| • Urban density | 480/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 643,399 |
| • Metro density | 480/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
| GDP[2] | |
| • Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 132.3 billion US$ 21.3 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 27,168 US$ 4,362 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 343000 |
| Area code | 0796 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-JX-08 |
| Licence plate prefixes | 赣D |
| Website | jian |
Ji'an (Chinese:
Ji'an (
Administration
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The Ji'an municipal region comprises two districts, a county-level city and ten counties.
District
[edit]- Jizhou District (
吉 州 区 ) - Qingyuan District (
青原 区 )
County-level city
[edit]- Jinggangshan City (
井 冈山市 )
Counties
[edit]- Ji'an County (
吉安 县) - Jishui County (
吉水 县) - Yongxin County (
永 新 县) - Anfu County (
安福 县) - Xingan County (
新 干 县) - Xiajiang County (
峡江 县) - Yongfeng County (
永 丰县) - Taihe County (
泰和 县) - Wan'an County (
万 安 县) - Suichuan County (
遂 川 县)
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Geography
[edit]Climate
[edit]Ji'an has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) affected by the East Asian monsoon, with long, humid, very hot summers and cool and drier winters with occasional cold snaps. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from 6.6 °C (43.9 °F) in January to 29.8 °C (85.6 °F) in July, with an annual average of 18.69 °C (65.6 °F). The average annual precipitation is around 1,570 mm (62 in). With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 19% in March to 59% in July, the city receives 1,641 hours of bright sunshine annually. Winter begins somewhat sunny and dry but becomes progressively wetter and cloudier; spring begins especially gloomy, and from April to June each of the months averages more than 210 mm (8.3 in) of rainfall. After the heavy rains subside in June, summer is especially sunny. Autumn is warm and relatively dry.
| Climate data for Ji'an (Ji'an County, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 26.8 (80.2) |
31.0 (87.8) |
32.6 (90.7) |
36.2 (97.2) |
36.8 (98.2) |
38.1 (100.6) |
40.9 (105.6) |
40.8 (105.4) |
39.6 (103.3) |
36.7 (98.1) |
32.9 (91.2) |
29.4 (84.9) |
40.9 (105.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 10.5 (50.9) |
13.7 (56.7) |
17.3 (63.1) |
23.9 (75.0) |
28.4 (83.1) |
31.1 (88.0) |
34.7 (94.5) |
34.0 (93.2) |
30.4 (86.7) |
25.5 (77.9) |
19.5 (67.1) |
13.3 (55.9) |
23.5 (74.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 6.9 (44.4) |
9.5 (49.1) |
13.2 (55.8) |
19.3 (66.7) |
23.9 (75.0) |
26.9 (80.4) |
29.9 (85.8) |
29.2 (84.6) |
25.7 (78.3) |
20.5 (68.9) |
14.8 (58.6) |
9.0 (48.2) |
19.1 (66.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 4.4 (39.9) |
6.7 (44.1) |
10.2 (50.4) |
16.0 (60.8) |
20.5 (68.9) |
23.8 (74.8) |
26.3 (79.3) |
25.6 (78.1) |
22.2 (72.0) |
16.9 (62.4) |
11.3 (52.3) |
5.8 (42.4) |
15.8 (60.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −7.1 (19.2) |
−8.0 (17.6) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
2.7 (36.9) |
10.6 (51.1) |
15.5 (59.9) |
19.0 (66.2) |
19.3 (66.7) |
12.5 (54.5) |
3.3 (37.9) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−8.0 (17.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 75.5 (2.97) |
89.4 (3.52) |
185.1 (7.29) |
199.4 (7.85) |
224.4 (8.83) |
277.9 (10.94) |
159.1 (6.26) |
136.6 (5.38) |
80.9 (3.19) |
60.9 (2.40) |
84.0 (3.31) |
58.1 (2.29) |
1,631.3 (64.23) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 13.1 | 13.6 | 18.1 | 17.6 | 17 | 16.1 | 10.6 | 11.9 | 8.4 | 7.3 | 9.6 | 10.3 | 153.6 |
| Average snowy days | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 4.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 81 | 81 | 83 | 81 | 80 | 81 | 72 | 76 | 78 | 75 | 78 | 77 | 79 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 65.7 | 68.5 | 72.6 | 102.1 | 124.6 | 132.4 | 229.4 | 208.0 | 160.4 | 145.4 | 116.3 | 104.0 | 1,529.4 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 20 | 22 | 19 | 27 | 30 | 32 | 55 | 52 | 44 | 41 | 36 | 32 | 34 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[4][5][6] | |||||||||||||
Transportation
[edit]Jinggangshan Airport in Taihe County serves Ji'an. The Beijing-Kowloon Railway line passes through the Ji'an municipality with train stations in Xingan, Xiajiang, Jishui, Ji'an (Ji'an Station), and Taihe. Ji'an is connected to the China National Highways 105 and 319.
Education
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Jinggangshan University is located in Qingyuan District, Ji'an.
The Ji'an Public Library (
Notable people
[edit]- Ouyang Xiu (
欧 阳修), a statesman, historian, poet and essayist of the Song Dynasty. - Ouyang Ziyuan (
欧 阳自远), a cosmochemist, geochemist and space advocate. - Wen Tianxiang (
文 天 祥 ), a scholar general, and famed anti-Yuan leader during the latter days of the Southern Song Dynasty. - Yang Wanli (杨
万 里 ), one of the "four masters" of poetry of the Southern Song Dynasty. - Hu Quan (
胡 铨), essayist and one of the four grand ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty. - Zhou Bida (
周 必大), a left prime minister during the Southern Song Dynasty. - Luo Hongxian (
羅 洪 先 ), a Ming Dynasty cartographer. - Xiao Gang, former deputy governor of the People's Bank of China.
- Liu Zhi, former general of Republic of China.
- Zeng Qinghong (曾庆红), former Vice President of China
References
[edit]- ^ "China: Jiāngxī (Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties) - Population Statistics, Charts and Map".
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江西 省 统计局 、国家 统计局 江西 调查总队 (August 2016). 《江西 统计年 鉴－2016》.中国 统计出版 社 . ISBN 978-7-5037-7809-4. Archived from the original on 2018-05-11. Retrieved 2017-06-05. - ^ Gerritsen, Anne (2004). "From Demon to Deity: Kang Wang in Thirteenth-Century Jizhou and beyond (Du démon à la divinité: Kang Wang à Jizhou au XIIIe siècle et au-delà)" (PDF). T'oung Pao. 90 (1/3): 1–31. doi:10.1163/1568532042523158. JSTOR 4528955.
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中国 气象数 据 网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 23 September 2023. - ^
"Experience Template"
中国 气象数 据 网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 23 September 2023. - ^
中国 地面 国 际交换站气候标准值月值数据 集 （1971－2000年 ）. China Meteorological Administration. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. - ^ "Home page". Ji'an Public Library. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
地 址 ：江西 省 吉安 市 吉 州 大道
- Gerritsen, Anne (2004). "From Demon to Deity: Kang Wang in Thirteenth-Century Jizhou and beyond (Du démon à la divinité: Kang Wang à Jizhou au XIIIe siècle et au-delà)" (PDF). T'oung Pao. 90 (1/3): 1–31. doi:10.1163/1568532042523158. JSTOR 4528955.
- Anne Gerritsen (26 March 2007). Ji'an Literati and the Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China. BRILL. pp. 116–. ISBN 978-90-474-1953-2.
External links
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- Ji'an City official website
- Ji'an City official website (in Chinese)
- Ji'an Public Library (in Chinese)
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