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Jiangshan Jiangshan () is a county-level city located in Quzhou prefecture-level city, in the southwest of Zhejiang Province, China, bordering Jiangxi province to the west. Located about 250 kilometers southwest of Hangzhou, the provincial capital, it is ...

, Quzhou,

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, China. Its origins are in a government-operated academy of classical learning established in the year 1737, during the second year of the rule of the Qianlong Emperor of the

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. The current Jiangshan High School was founded in 1938. The Jiangshan Foreign Language School is affiliated with Jiangshan High School. On July 6, 2013, 29 students and 5 teachers from Jiangshan High School were on board

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, traveling to a

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, when the aircraft crashed at San Francisco International Airport. Three Jiangshan students died in the crash.Biographies of 3 Chinese SF airliner crash victims
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