Jilin City

Jilin City is a prefecture-level city located in Jilin Province in China. It has a population of 1,985,000 and a metropolitan area of 27,120 km?. Jilin is the only major city with a homologous name to the province which it is located.

Jilin City is also called ''River City'' , which was originated from one sentence, "", of a poem written by Kangxi Emperor when he was visiting Jilin City in 1682. The alias name is also because of the Songhua River surrounding almost the whole city.

Geography

Jilin City is situated in hilly area near the Songhua River.
There are four famous mountains surrounding Jilin City, which is North Moutanin in the west, Long Tan Mountain in the east, Zhuque Mountain in the North, and Turtle Mountain in the south, plus Songhua River, it forms a buagua in Taiji pattern.
North Mountain, called Beishan, is the most famous mountain in Jilin City, it's said, Emperor Qianlong had come and visited the mountain.It is also said that there are several Buddhist temples on the moutain.

Tourism

Jilin City is a popular destination for tourists to come each winter to view the magnificent on trees along the banks of the Songhua River, . The rime ice is a natural phenomenon that occurs every year during January and February. It is a result of when water vapor rises up from the warm Songhua River to meet the cold -20 °C night air, causing the crystalisation of water vapour on willows branches. The ice-rimed trees in Jilin are one of the four natural wonders of China, along with the Guilin Mountains and Streams, Yunnan Stone Forest, and Three Gorges on the Yangtze River.

Attractions:

Meteorite Museum
North Hill Park
Dragon Pool Mountain Park
Songhua Lake

Night club and Karaoke:
There are plenty of night clubs in Jilin, most of them are discos, some famous one are JieJie, True colour(founded by the famous celebrity Liu Ye, Mix.

Karaoke:
There many small Karaok shops, along the east Jiefang road.
And famous chain karaok like party world, is located in Jilin city as well, right now there are two chain stores in Jilin. Mostly, students like to go there, and the price there is affordable.
The other good one is Hi5, located along Jiefang road. It's considered as highest class, karaoke store, serve western wine, and facility are very good.

Sister cities

Nakhodka, Primorsky krai, Russia - July, 1991.
Spokane, Washington,United States.
Cherkasy,Ukraine.
?stersund, Sweden

Sports

The winter sports in Jilin City are full of interests, such as skiing, skating, sledding, snowboarding, and winter swim.

Ski resorts:
North Big Lake ski resort
Songhua Lake ski resort
North Hill ski resort
Zhuque Hill ski resort

Winter swim is widely practised in Jilin city, people here tend to think that it's very healthy, so during winter time, although most of people wearing thick clothes on the shore, but you can see some of the crowd take off the clothes and jump into the river.