I . Survey

(i) Geographic Location

Jiangxi is located in the southeast of China and on the southern bank of the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River, situated at 31°23′–36°22′north latitude and 110°21′–116°39′east longitude. Bordering Zhejiang and Fujian province to the east, Guangdong Province to the south, Hunan Province to the west as well as Hubei and Anhui province to the north. Moreover, Jiangxi is the hinterland of the Changjiang Delta, Zhujiang Delta and southeast triangle area of Fujian province. With a total area of 166,900 square kilometers, Jiangxi is the largest province of the Eastchina, stretching about 620 km from south to north and about 490 km from east to west.

Jiangxi Province, called Gan for short, has 11 municipalities in all: Nanchang, Jiujiang, Ganzhou, Yichun, Shangrao, Ji’an, Fuzhou, Jingdezhen, Pingxiang, Xinyu and Yingtan, with the capital city of Nanchang.

(ii) Climate

Near to the tropic of Cancer, Jiangxi’s climate belongs to typical subtropical humid climate, with annual average temperature 18.7℃ and sunshine duration 1,846.7 hours. On the other hand, abundant rainfall creates favorable conditions for farming with annual average precipitation of 1,340 –1, 900mm and a long frost-free period of 8–10months.

(iii) Population and Nationalities

In 2005, the total population of Jiangxi province was 43.112 million, 37.1% in urban area, and 62.9% in rural area.

Totally, there are 38 nationalities in Jiangxi, Han， with tht largest population of 42,995,600, taking 99.73% of the whole population of Jiangxi. The total population of all minorities is 116,400, taking 0.27% of the whole population. Among those minorities, Hui, She and Zhuang have larger population.

(iv) Infrastructures and Transportation

Communication

A 3-dimensional transportation network has been established, consisting of waterway, highway and airway transportation.

Railway: Beijing-Kowloon Railway from north to south and Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway from east to west form a major railway network together with Yingtan-Xiamen Railway, Anhui-Jiangxi Railway, Henfeng-Nanping Railway and Ganzhou-Longyan Railway, etc. The total mileage is 3,070 km. In particular, multiple transportation have been put in operation from Nanchang to Xiamen and to Shenzhen.

Highway: Jiangxi has built a shaped highway network of 1,580km in length. The main roads and highways both connect Jiangxi with neighboring provinces and link the capital city Nanchang to the other 10 municipalities and districts. By the end of 2005, the length of roads and highways totaled 62,300 kilometers in Jiangxi province.

Waterway: Jiangxi waterway system mainly consists of the Yangtze River (Jiangxi section), Ganjiang River and Xinjiang River, which totals 5,638km. There are 54 ports in all with a total annual handling capacity of over 10,000 tonne, including Jiujiang Port (over 6 million tonne), Nanchang Port and Ruichang Port (3million-5 million tonne), 7 ports (1million-3 million tonne) and 44 ports (below 1million tonne). Nanchang International Container Handling Dock and Jiujiang International Waterway Transportation Center have been constructed, from which ships can reach all major ports of the world.
Airport: So far Jiangxi has 5 airports available: Nanchang Changbei International Airport (Grade 4C), Ganzhou Huangjin Airport (Grade 4C), Jingdezhen Luojia Airport (Grade 4C), Jiujiang Lushan Airport (Grade 4C) and Ji’an Jinggangshan Airport (Grade 3C), 47 air lines have been in operation, and cover many main cities of china. Several international lines have been approved by authority including Nanchang-Singapore、Nanchang- Kuala Lumpur、 Nanchang-Frankfurt、 Nanchang-Paris、Nanchang-Los Angeles and Nanchang-Vancouver. In 2005, civil aviation in Jiangxi had carried 2.06 million passengers and transported 17,000 tones of freights. At present, Nanchang Changbei International Airport is being enlarged to become a middlesized pivot.

Post and Telecommunication

Industry of post and telecommunication maintains sustained and rapid growth. New communication portfolio increased remarkably. In 2005, the total business value of post and telecommunication went up to RMB 26.1 billion Yuan. The capacity of program-controlled switchboards rose to 10.82 million terminals. The Internet subscribers increased to 3.17 million. In every 100 residents, there were 37.9 telephones available.

Power Industry

Jiangxi has sufficient power supply. In 2005, the capacity of generating electricity surpassed 6,620,800 kilowatts. The supply of electric power for industry, agriculture and residents’ living is fully ensured.

Banking

Jiangxi has complete banking organizations, covering all the quarters of Jiangxi province. By the end of 2005, deposits of financial across Jiangxi totaled RMB 444.55 billion Yuan, among which, the bank balance of 275.3 billion was from citizens. And the credits held by provincial financial facilities in RMB totaled 301.9 billion yuan.

Insurance

Insurance maintains rapid growth. In 2005, there are 12 insurance enterprises, 44,200 insurance staff, RMB 8.98 billion Yuan insurance input; the insurance density is RMB 208 Yuan per person.

(v) Ecological Environment

Jiangxi has a superior ecological environment. By the end of 2005, there are 128 natural reserves in Jiangxi Province. Among those conservation areas, 5 are of the state level, 25 of provincial level, 1 urban reserve and 97 county-level areas. And the total areas are 902 thousand hectares, taking up 5.4% of the whole area in the province. 22 counties were approved as experimental reserve of the ecological demonstration area by the State Environmental Protection Administration covering 9,555 thousand hectares, which is 57.3% of the total area in the province.

(vi) Foreign Exchanges

Provinces and Cities of Friendship

The work of cities of friendship first started in 1984. And we have had 7 of friendship pairs of state level cities of friendship in different periods: Hessen of Germany, Kentucky of U.S.A., Utah of U.S.A., Gifuken of Japan and Okayamaken of Japan. There are also 20 city level cities of friendship. Interms of various activities such as visiting each other, negotiating about commerce, talents communication and technology training, the friendship between Jiangxi people and people from cities of friendship has been developing, the economic cooperation and commercial communication have been improving, the communication and cooperation in cemprehensive culture, education, technology and other fields have also been forwarding.

International Exhibition

China Jingdezhen International Ceramic Fair: It is organized cooperatively by China’s Ministry of Commerce，China National Light Industry Council, CCPIT (China Council for the Promotion of International Trade) and the People’s Government of Jiangxi Province. Since the year 2004,it has been holding annually in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi in October. This is a large international ceramics exhibition, which shows not only fine ceramics but also culture of ceramics as well as the tradeshow of ceramics.

Economic and Trade Seminar of Jiangxi & Taiwan: Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, and the Perple’s Government of Jiangxi province organize it iointly. Since 2003, it has been holding annually in Jiangxi in September, famous for the largest scale, the most and the best customers in the middle of China; and it has become a significant seminar in China.

(vii) Higher Educations and Scientifi c Research

Higher Education

There are about 68 colleges and universities in Jiangxi, such as: Nanchang University, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Jiangxi Agriculture University, Jiangxi Normal University and East China JiaoTong University. And totally, those universities have 16 Doctor training centers and 287 Master training centers, with 646,100 undergraduates pursuing 4-year or 3-year diploma, 9,860 postgraduates.

Scientific Research

In 2005, Jiangxi set up 1 national engineering technological research center, 45 province-level engineering technological research centers and 35 province-level key laboratories. 3,321 technological contracts had been signed with a business volume of RMB 1.11 billion Yuan. The number of patent applications was steadily on the increase, 2,815 patent applications were received, 1,361 were granted with patent rights. The number of nationally registered scientific and technological achievements rose to 207 and 5 of them were awarded the prize of State Scientific and Technological Award.

(viii) Tourism

Jiangxi enjoys high reputation for its unique picturesque scenery and places of historic interest, which offers great resources to tourism as an emerging industry. There are well-known porcelain-capital Jingdezhen, Mt. Lushan as one of the world’s cultural heritages and Poyang Lake as the world’s major wetland, Jingdezhen, Nanchang and Ganzhou as famous 3 national historic and cultural cities, 5 national natural conservation areas, namely, Jinggang Mountains, Sanqing Mountain, Longhu Mountain, Fairy Lake, and 11 national scenic resorts. Moreover, Nanchang, Jinggangshan, Pingxiang and Ruijin are the birthplace of Chinese revolutionary culture.

In 2005 Jiangxi welcomed 373,000 overseas tourists and 50.579 million domestic visitors. The total income in tourism amounted to RMB32 billion Yuan.

Some special local products of Jiangxi

Jiangxi is rich in local products，some primary foods are: Tangerine in Nanfeng, Navel Orange in Gannan, Black-boned Chieken in Taihe, Lily in Waizai, Rice in Wannian, Firecrackers in Pingxiang, White lotus in Guangchang and so on.