Jilin City

Yanji

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Yanji is the capital of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, within Jilin province of northeastern China. Its population is approximately 398,900. Because of the large Korean population, there is now a law that signs in Yanji be written in Chinese with a Korean translation.

History

Yanji City is one of the six cities of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region, situated in the eastern part of Jilin Province, China. The five other cities are Hunchun, Dunhua, and , and the region also has two counties, Antu and Wangqing.

Chinese, Mongolian, Manchu and many other clans took control of it afterwards. It was officially a city part of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

The place that today is called Yanji is part of Manchuria .

Climate

The climate of Yanji is considered as one of the coldest in China. It has the same amount of lakes, rivers, and montains around it as Tumen, Hunchun, and three other cities in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture.

Travel

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Education

*Yanbian University of Science and Technology
*Yanbian University
Yanbian No. 1 High School

Tungfeng

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Dongfeng or Tung-feng, Jilin, China a town about 100km south of Changchun.

Tumen, Jilin

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Tumen is a county-level city in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, within Jilin province of northeastern China. Of its 136,000 inhabitants, approximately 78,000 are of Korean descent. The two official languages are and . Tumen is separated from Namyang of North Hamgyong province of North Korea by the Tumen River. Due to this proximity, many North Koreans escaping their country pass through Tumen. Tumen is also the location of a large detention center for captured North Koreans awaiting deportation. Tumen has two major food markets, the South Market and the North Market, where most of the residents purchase their food. Packaged foods and meats are usually sold inside the building, and vegetables are sold outside. There are six elementary schools, with three Korean schools, and three Chinese schools.

A riverfront promenade in the city has restaurants where patrons can gaze across the river into North Korea.

Tonghua

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Tonghua is a prefecture-level city in the People's Republic of China province Jilin.

Tonghua is an industrial city in the south of Jilin Province in the People's Republic of China. Jilin Province is one of three that comprise the region known as Dongbei - commonly referred to in English as Manchuria.

Confusingly, Tonghua appears twice on most maps of Jilin. The larger symbol marks the space of the city. The smaller marks the place of Tonghua county. The following notes refer to the former.

Traditionally, Tonghua occupied a railhub position in a region of China noted for trade in only three agricultural commodities. These were ginseng, marten furs and deer antler products. In the 1980s Tonghua had some initial success with a wine distillery producing sweet, sticky red wines that proved popular with local consumers. From 1987 onwards a bienniel wine festival was inaugurated, but this and the industry it promoted ultimately failed commercially owing to competition with joint venture wine companies such as Dragon, who were able to produce a product that was marketable overseas. Following this failure, Tonghua industry was thrown back on its traditional agricultural products - and a few small but viable factories, including one specialising in artificial furs.

A fledgling tourist trade sought to highlight Tonghua attractions such as some impressive ski slopes, the tomb of the local hero General Yang and the beautiful Changbai Shan Nature Reserve for which Tonghua serves as a connecting railway station from the major population centres to the north and west.

Tonghua's population hovers around the 300,000 mark, but census information is difficult to assess as it includes demographic information from other towns nearby . The inclusion of these suburbs and surrounding towns greatly swells Tonghua's official population beyond the 300,000-mark.

Poor, backward and, at local level, conservatively led, Tonghua was late in benefiting from the economic reforms of national leaders such as Zhao Ziyang. Although the railway provided useful direct links to major cities such as Shenyang, Tianjin and Changchun, few signs of progress could be seen on Tonghua's dirty streets until the mid-nineties, when plans were approved for a plethora of building projects which transformed the city. These have helped fuel a resurgence in Tonghua's commercial strength.

Tonghua is also the site of Tonghua Teachers' College. The British Development agency and NGO, VSO, have been sending foreign teachers here since 1987.

Taonan

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Taonan is a city, population about 100,000, in Jilin Province.

Songyuan

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Songyuan is a prefecture-level city in Jilin province, People's Republic of China.

History

Songyuan has a long history dated back to the Neolithic age. The ancient monuments and ruins in the city speak volume of the long history and magnificent culture of Songyuan. There was the ancient 2000 years ago. There was the in 1000 years ago. And there was the militaristic founded by the Nuzhen tribe after their victorious arms conquered the .

At the beginning of the 20th century, the great revolutionary pioneer Sun Yat-sen proposed to build a transportation hub in where Songhua River and Nen River meet, which materialized as the current city of Songyuan.

Authorized by the national government, Songyuan was founded as a prefecture-level city in 1992.

In 2007, it is chosen to be one of the cities for 2008 Olympic torch relay, and is the first relay stop of the province, on which occasion there will be more than 300 media companies, domestic and international, to report on the city. The National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy named a meteor after Songyuan, an honor bestowed only on eight cities in the nation. This series of exciting activities and accomplishments increased the renown and influence of the city.

Geography

Songyuan is in the intersection of the Province of Jilin, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia. Located in the middle west of Jilin Province, right at the center of the Northeast China, the city covers 22,000 square kilometers with a population of 2.8 million.

There are 7,600 square kilometres of arable land, with an annual food production of about 6 million tons, a quarter of the total production of Jilin Province. The urban area is 71.76 square kilometers. The second Songhua River crosses the city, which makes it one of the few not completely developed riverside cities in the nation.

There are five railways and six provincial or national highways passing through the city. It takes only 90 mintues to reach Changchun or Harbin airport from the city. Changchun or Harbin can also be easily reached through waterway.

A circle drawn with Songyuan as center, and with a radius of 200 kilometers, will cover a population of 31 million, with Songyuan being the important transportation hub and commerce center of the northeastern China and Inner Mongolia. In the next few years Songyuan will become the regional center of northeastern China.

Administrative divisions

Songyuan has one and four :
*Ningjiang District
*Qian'an County
*Changling County
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*Qian Gorlos Mongol Autonomous County

There are three provincial level development areas: Songyuan economy and technology development area, Songyuan agricultural new technology development area and the Chagan Lake tourism development area.

Economy

Songyuan is an oil-petroleum city in the Songnan Plain, with the sixth largest land-based oil field of China, Jilin Oil Field, located in the city. It sits on the world-famous Golden Corn Belt, and is a national commercial food and oil base.

In 2006, the city had a revenue of 47.4 billion Yuan, with a profit of 4.5 billion Yuan, the third of the province in terms of overall economic achievement. In 2007, the total revenue is expected to be 60 billion Yuan, with a profit of 6.5 billion Yuan.

In 2006, the city was among the top 20 cities in China with best investment potential for multi-national companies.

Songyuan is famous for its food, meat, fish and oil production, with abundant materials above and below ground. There are five categories of materials above ground. 1. Food. Jilin is a big food-production province, and Songyuan is a big food-production city. In 2006 the city is ranked the 2nd of the province in food production, with a total output of 6.412 million tons of food, among which are 4.808 million tons of corn. 2. Water. There is plenty of water resource. There are several rivers and lakes in the city, which yield more than 40 billions cubic meters of water. There are 1.557 billion cubic meters of water reserve, which can meet the need of water-demanding industry. 3. Grassland. The grassland is wide and far. The city is in the east end of the Kerqin grassland, with 53,000 square kilometres of grassland yielding 0.3 million tons of grass annually. It is a natural land for pastoral industry. 4. Electricity. The city is expanding its electricity generation capacity. 5. Tourism. There are 20 important tourist destinations, including the beautiful Chagan Lake, which is one of the ten largest fresh water lakes of the nation; the wonderful Qianan Forest; the ancient temples and monuments that have witnessed the vicissitude of ages.

Underground materials are oil and gas. Currently ascertained are 1.134 billion tons of oil and 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas. Last year Jilin Oil Field production exceeds 6 million tons of oil and gas. In addition, the city boasts bountiful minerals.

Taking advantage of abundant materials, special locations and easy transportation, the city has reserved and developed many important projects, gradually building a complete industry of oil production, oil refinery, oil chemistry, biological chemistry, agricultural and pastoral products, pharmaceutical, textile, machinery, electricity etc., laying down a solid foundation for further development.

Siping (city)

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Siping , formerly Ssupingkai , is a city in in
Northeast China. The percentage of Han Chinese is at 91%, and there are Manchu, and minorities.

Siping is the seat of an apostolic Vicariate of the Roman Catholic Church. it was the site of several major battle during the Chinese civil war from 1945-49

Geography

Siping has several hundreds of thousands of residents. The urban area is 407 km?. Annual precipitation is 600 mm.

Siping prefecture includes two districts, two counties and two cities.

Notable people

*Jia Hongsheng, Chinese actor

Shulan

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Shulan, Jilin, China at city 125km south southeast of Harbin.

Meihekou

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Meihekou is a city of 600,000 in Jilin province, China. It is a rail junction, connecting the Shenyang-Jilin line to lines going to Tonghua and Ji'an in the east and Siping in the west. All the railway lines coming here are single track. Meihekou is also a major lorry transshipment point in the region as it is also the junction of two trunk roads.

The city comes under the jurisdiction of Tonghua prefecture.

Longjing (city)

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Longjing is a in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, within Jilin province of China. it lies on the Tumen River opposite the north korea city Hoeryong.

Its population is approximately 258,000.

Yun Tong-ju studied in Longjing.

Linjiang, Jilin

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Linjiang is a county-level city in Baishan, Jilin province of Northeast China, located to the east of Tonghua, near the Korean border. It is the birthplace of Liu Zhi.

Liaoyuan

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Liaoyuan is a prefecture-level city located in Jilin province, People's Republic of China. Liaoyuan city lies some 120 km south-west of Changchun, the capital of Jilin province, and has an population of 1,267,033 and 462,233 .

Coal mining used to contribute an important part of the local economy. However after 1997, because of the exhaustion of coal resource, the economy of this city was brought to a standstill. Fortunately, the city succeeded in transforming its economic structure from a mining-oriented one to a light manufacturing oriented one. At present, the city is the biggest sock-manufacturing center in northestern China.

On December 16, 2005, a fire in a hospital killed at least 39 people, 33 of whom were patients. The cause of the fire is unknown.

Administrative divisions

*Longshan District
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*Dongliao County
*Dongfeng County

Jilin City

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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.

Jiaohe

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Jiaohe is a middle-sized city attached to Jilin City in the of . It is famous for its production of tobacco and rice. The mayor of Jiaohe is Wang Gang .

The sister city of Jiaohe is Folsom, California in the .

Ji'an, Jilin

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Ji'an is a county-level city in Jilin province, People's Republic of China.
It belongs to the prefecture-level city of Tonghua.
Ji'an has an area of and a population of approximately 230,000.
The city was established as a city in 1988.

Ji'an is separated from North Korea by the Yalu River.
It has an annual average temperature of and an average annual precipitation of .

Until 427 CE, Ji'an was the capital of Goguryeo, and was called Gungnae seong , for 400 years until the capital's relocation to Hwando fortress in 209 CE.
The Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom, located in Ji'an Jilin and Huanren Manchu Autonomous County Liaoning, have been listed as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Hunjiang

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Hunjiang is a city in Jilin province in China. As of 2005 it had a population of around 602,000 people.

Hunchun

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Hunchun is a city in northeast China. Hunchun is located in eastern Jilin province directly on the borders with North Korea and Russia. It is part of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. It has over 150,000 inhabitants.

Economy

Since the early 90s, the Chinese government invested a lot in transforming Hunchun into a regional economic center. On March 9, 1992 the Chinese parliament approved approved to set up Hunchun Border Economic Cooperation Zone. The national government and Jilin provincial government have invested in succession over four billion yuan in Hunchun through the 1990s.

Transport

In the early 1990s, Jilin province government constructed a railway and improved the highway to Hunchun. Railway container service between Hunchun and the North Korean port town of Rajin is available via the Tumen-Namyang bridge. In addition, a new railway line was constructed which links Hunchun and Makhalino in Russia and began operating in February 2000.
Hunchun port is 42 km from Posyet and 63 km from port towns of Russia.

Huadian City

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Huadian is a city in Jilin province in northern China. As of 2005 it had a population of around 200,000 people.

Gongzhuling

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Gongzhuling, or Princess Ridge , county-level city is situated between City of Siping and City of Changchun in Jilin province, about 60km from Chungchun, along the main artery railway in the Northeast of the People's Republic of China. Major employers in the city include Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, located on the north side of the railway and several factories which manufacture auto parts. There is major military presence in this small town, including PLA Army and a military airport. The best high school is No.1 Experimental High School.

Dunhua

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Dunhua is a city in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in the province of Jilin in China. Dunhua has more than 257,190 inhabitants.

Sister cities

* Dongjak-gu, Seoul of South Korea

Dongfeng (city)

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Dongfeng or Tung-feng , Jilin, China a city about 100km south of Changchun.

Dehui

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Dehui , Heilongjiang, China, a county level cities, composed of 14 towns, 4 street committees and 308 villages is located in the middle of Songliao Plain, and is governed by Changchun city. The population of Dehui is 906,000, among which 753,000 live in urban area.

Changchun

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Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin , located in the northeast of the People's Republic of China, in the centre of the Songliao Plain. It is a sub-provincial city. The name originated from the Jurchen language. As of 2000, Changchun has a population of 7.1 million, including counties and county-level cities. The urban districts have a total population of 3.2 million.

History

Changchun is a new city with only about 200 years of history. Changchun started as a minor trading town. In 1800, Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty selected a small village on the east bank of the Yitong River and named it "Changchun Ting." In 1889, it was promoted as "Changchun Fu".

It expanded rapidly as the junction between of the Japanese-owned South Manchurian Railway and the Russian-owned Chinese Eastern Railway which had different rail gauges, as well as permit licences, from 1905-1935. Changchun had railway repair shops and branch lines originating in Changchun extended into Korea and Inner Mongolia
In 1932 moving from Jilin City 200 km to the east, Changchun became the capital of Manchukuo, a state in Manchuria. Then known as Hsinking , the capital was a well-planned city with broad avenues and modern public works. The city underwent rapid expansion in both its economy and infrastructures.

From 1931 to 1945 China's last emperor Pu Yi was installed as the Manchukuo government head by the Japanese authority. He resided in the Imperial Palace which is now the .

Severely damaged during World War II, the city was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in 1945. The Russians maintained a presence in the city after the Chinese civil war until 1956. Kuomintang forces occupied the city in 1946, but were unable to hold the countryside against Chinese Communist forces. The city fell to the communists in 1948 after a 12-month-long siege by the People's Liberation Army that resulted in a massive famine with a civilan death toll of 100,000 to 300,000. Renamed Changchun by the People's Republic of China government, it became the capital of Jilin in 1954.

The is also one of the remaining film factories of the era. From the 1950s, it was designated to become a center for China's automotive industry. The famous were made in Changchun as were the Liberation trucks based on a Ford model used in Russia who supplied much of the early manufacturing machinery.

Changchun hosted the 2007 Winter Asian Games.

Administration

The prefecture-level city of Changchun administers 10 , including 6 , 3 and 1 .

*Nanguan District
*Kuancheng District
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*Erdao District
*Lvyuan District
*Shuangyang District
*Jiutai City
* City
*Denghui City
*Nong'an County

Economy

Changchun is situated at Northeast Asia's geometric center. South Liaodong peninsula coastline, north to Russia and Eastern Europe, east to North Korea, South Korea, Russia, and west to Mongolia. Changchun is a important transportation and communication hub of Northeast China.

Changchun's main industry is the manufacturing of transportation facilities and machinery. It produces 20%, 50%, and 10% of all automobiles, passenger trains, and tractors made in China.

Changchun is the biggest automobile research and development center in China. The first Chinese truck and car was made in Changchun. FAW Group is headquartered in Changchun. The automaker's factories and associated housing and services occupies a substantial portion of the city's southwest end. Specific brands produced in Changchun includes the Red Flag luxury brand, as well as joint ventures with Audi, Volkswagen, and Toyota.

The GDP per capita was 21336 in 2003, no. 52 among 659 Chinese cities.

Changchun hosts the yearly Changchun International Automobile Fair, Changchun Film Festival, Changchun Agricultural Fair, Education Exhibition and the Sculpture Exhibition.

Industrial zones

*Changchun High-tech Industrial Development Zone
*Changchun Economic & Technological Development Zone

Transportation

Changchun is served by a comprehensive bus system, as well as one . Most buses and the tram charge 1 Yuan per ride. Changchun also has as a that began revenue service in 2002 and is undergoing extension. Private automobiles are becoming very common on the city's congested streets. Bicycles are relatively rare compared to other northeastern Chinese cities, but mopeds, as well as pedal and even animal-drawn carts are relatively common.

Changchun has three passenger rail stations, though most trains only stop at the central Changchun Railway Station , where there are multiple daily departures to other northeast cities such as Jilin City, Harbin, Shenyang, and Dalian, as well as Beijing. Changchun Longjia International Airport, located well to the east of the city, has flights to cities across eastern and central China, as well as Seoul, South Korea and Tokyo, Japan.

Universities and Colleges

*Jilin University
*Northeast Normal University
*Changchun University of Technology
*Changchun University of Science and Technology

Sister cities

* Birmingham, United Kingdom
* Flint, Michigan
* Novi Sad, Serbia
* Québec City, Québec, Canada
* Ulsan, South Korea
* Windsor, Ontario, Canada
* ?ilina, Slovakia