Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang, is a

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of China' ...

located on the southern shores of the

Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest list of rivers of Asia, river in Asia, the list of rivers by length, third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in th ...

in northwest

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

Province, People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level city in Jiangxi province. ''Jiujiang'' literally means "nine rivers". Jiujiang is one of the first five cities that were opened to foreign trade along the Yangtze River following the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy. It is the Yangtze River's shipping hub international gateway, and

's only international trade port city. Jiujiang Port is the fourth largest port on the Yangtze River. Its population was 4,600,276 inhabitants at the 2020 census, 1,164,268 of whom resided in the built-up area made up of three urban districts ( Xunyang, Lianxi, and Chaisang). In 2007, the city was named China's top ten livable cities by the Chinese Cities Brand Value Report, which was released at 2007 Beijing Summit of China Cities Forum. In 2022, the State Council of China granted Jiujiang the title of National Historical and Cultural City for its rich history and multiculture background in the Republic of China era.

Administrative divisions

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Xunyang District Xunyang District () is a district of the city of Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China. Administrative divisions Xunyang District has 7 subdistricts. ;7 subdistricts Transport * Beijing–Kowloon railway The Beijing–Kowloon railway, also know ...

() :* Lianxi District () :*

Chaisang District Chaisang District (), known as Jiujiang County () before September 2017, is a district of the city of Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province, China. It has non-contiguous land area, with a smaller exclave to the northeast being separated by Lianxi District a ...

() * Counties: :*

Wuning County Wuning County () is a county in the northwest of Jiangxi Province, China, bordering Hubei Province to the north. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Jiujiang Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang ...

() :* Xiushui County () :*

Yongxiu County Yongxiu () is a county under the administration of Jiujiang City in northern Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, on the western shores of Poyang Lake. , the county has a total population of 361,000 residing in an area of . Bordering coun ...

() :* De'an County () :* Duchang County () :* Hukou County () :* Pengze County () *

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: :* Ruichang () :* Gongqingcheng (). Directly administered as a

sub-prefecture-level city A sub-prefectural municipality (), sub-prefectural city, or vice-prefectural municipality, is an unofficial designation for a type of administrative division of China. A sub-prefectural city is officially considered to be a county-level city, b ...

since 1 July 2014. :*

Lushan Mountain Lu or Lushan (, Gan: Lu-san), officially named Mountain Lu National Park, is a mountain in China. It was also known as Kuanglu () in ancient times. It is situated in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, and is one of the most renowned mountai ...

() * Others: :* Bureau and Administration Committees ::* Mountain Lu Scenic Area Administration Bureau ::* Mountain Lu West Sea Scenic Area Management Committee ::* Bali Lake New Area Management Committee ::* Poyang Lake Ecological Science and Technology City Management Committee :* Towns and Sub-district Offices ::* There are 235 towns and 11 sub-district offices

History

Ancient history

In ancient times it was told that nine rivers converged near where Jiujiang sprang up to become Jiangxi's main water port today. From the

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to the

Shang The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty founded by Tang of Shang (Cheng Tang) that ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and f ...

dynasty, the capitals of several states were located in area of Jiujiang. In the

Spring and Autumn period The Spring and Autumn period was a period in Chinese history from approximately 770 to 476 BC (or according to some authorities until 403 BC) which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou period. The period's name derives fr ...

(770–476 BCE) Jiujiang bordered between the states of Wu (downstream, to the east) and

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(upstream, to the west).

Imperial history

Tao Yuanming Tao Yuanming (; 365–427), also known as Tao Qian (; also T'ao Ch'ien in Wade-Giles), was a Chinese poet and politician who was one of the best-known poets during the Six Dynasties, Six Dynasties period. He was born during the Eastern Jin dyn ...

(365–429 CE), a famous Chinese philosopher, lived at the base of

Mountain Lu Mountain Lu or Lushan (, Gan: Lu-san), officially named Mountain Lu National Park, is a mountain in China. It was also known as Kuanglu () in ancient times. It is situated in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, and is one of the most renowned mountai ...

. He was once appointed magistrate of nearby Pengze County and after 83 days resigned owing to the politics involved in administering justice. He retired back to his village to pen an essay called "

Peach Blossom Spring ''The Peach Blossom Spring'' (, also translated as “(The Record of) the Peach Blossom”), or ''Peach Blossom Spring Story'' or ''The Peach Blossom Land'' was a fable written by Tao Yuanming in 421 CE about a chance discovery of an ethereal utop ...

". In 757, Li Bai (701–762 CE) was implicated in the An–Shi disturbances and imprisoned at Jiujiang.

Bai Juyi Bai Juyi (also Bo Juyi or Po Chü-i; ; 772–846), courtesy name Letian (樂天), was a renowned Chinese poet and Tang dynasty government official. Many of his poems concern his career or observations made about everyday life, including as g ...

(772–846 CE) wrote a poem called "Lute Song", which is about his sadness and isolation of forced exile as a middle rank official to reside in such a small town. In the 13th century

Zhu Xi Zhu Xi (; ; October 18, 1130 – April 23, 1200), formerly romanized Chu Hsi, was a Chinese calligrapher, historian, philosopher, poet, and politician during the Song dynasty. Zhu was influential in the development of Neo-Confucianism. He con ...

was a Confucian philosopher who practiced at the

White Deer Grotto Academy The White Deer Grotto Academy (, Gan: Pak-Luk-Tung Su-yon, sometimes translated as White Deer Cave Academy or White Deer Hollow Academy) is a former school at the foot of Wulou Peak in Lushan, now in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. It was one of th ...

, on Mountain Lu's eastern flanks. Jiujiang has also been known as Jiangzhou and Xunyang in former times. During the

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it was known as Sin Yang, the Liang dynasty (502–557) it was called Jiangzhou. The

Sui dynasty The Sui dynasty (, ) was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China that lasted from 581 to 618. The Sui unified the Northern and Southern dynasties, thus ending the long period of division following the fall of the Western Jin dynasty, and layi ...

saw its name as Jiujiang, and the Song dynasty (960–1127) called it Ting Jiang. The Ming dynasty (1368–1644), gave it Jiujiang which has retained its name to this day. It was a

Taiping rebellion The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a massive rebellion and civil war that was waged in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Han, Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It lasted fr ...

stronghold for five years (1850–1864) after they devastated the town to only leave one street with buildings intact. The city served as the capital of Taiping's Jiangxi province during this time.

British concession and European settlement history

The arrival of the Europeans

A member of

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's committee arriving in 1858 to survey Chinese ports for treaty status noted: "We found it to the last degree deplorable." A single dilapidated street, composed only of a few mean shops, was all that existed of this once thriving populous city. The remainder of the vast area composed within its massive walls 9–10 kilometers in circumference, contained nothing but ruins, weeds and kitchen gardens. After Jiujiang becoming an open treaty port in 1862, it was exporting Jiangxi's vast rice crop. In 1904, more than 160,000 kilos of opium were moved through its customs house. The New York Methodist Mission Society's superintendent, Virgil C. Hart, arrived in Kiukiang in 1866 and bought a piece of property just east of the city wall. This is where the city's first Methodist church and Western hospital was built, with the hospital renamed the No. 1 Hospital, and the oldest/continuous operating hospital in Jiangxi Province. In 1896 Drs. Mary Stone (Shi Meiyu) and Ida Kahn (Kahn Cheng) arrived back in Jiujiang, being China's first two native female Western-educated doctors; having graduated from the

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Medical School. They were provided with funds collected by Dr. I. N. Danforth (from Chicago residents), to build the Elizabeth Skelton Danforth Hospital and administered entirely by the native Chinese. This was later renamed Jiujiang Women's and Children's Hospital, and the nursing education by Drs. Stone and Kahn would later be the impetus for the founding of

Jiujiang University The University of Jiujiang (UoJ)(Chinese: 九江学院; Pinyin: Jiǔjiāng Xuéyuàn) is a local university in Jiujiang, northern Jiangxi Province in China. History Jiujiang University is a comprehensive public university authorized by the ...

and Jiujiang Medical School. It became one of the three centers of the tea trade in China along with Hankou and

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. The Russians had two brick tea producing factories, but ceased operations after 1917. On October 16, 1927, there was an explosion of ammunition on the Chinese troopship ''Kuang Yuang'' near Jiujiang. The British surrendered their concession in 1927 after being robbed and its Chinese workers mutineered their posts to the marauding crowds. An economic recession had set in over the decades as Indian and Chelonian tea made for greater competition. A military advance was being staged upriver in Wuhan by the

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in 1927 and all the remaining expatriate community fled on British and American warships towards safer waters of Shanghai, to never return. Jiujiang languished as a port and much of its export trade was siphoned off with the connecting of Nanchang to coastal rail lines built in 1936–37.

The establishment of the British concession

After China's defeat in the Second Opium War, China and Britain signed the

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. At the beginning of the eleventh year of Xianfeng (1861), the British counsellor, Harry Parkes, went to the new port on the Yangtse River by naval vessel according to the treaty to investigate the situation and select the site of concession to be opened. After the concession sites of Zhenjiang and Hankou were delimit, on March 22, Harry Parkes returned to Jiujiang from Hankou and decided to open up a commercial port in Jiujiang. In the 11th year of xianfeng (1861), Zhang Jixin, general minister of Jiangxi province, signed with Harry Parkers the treaty of opening up the British concession in Jiujiang, the Treaty of Land Lease in Jiujiang. The concession was located in a narrow area on the west of Jiujiang, between the Yangtze River and Gantang Lake, to the west of Longkai River, with a length of 150 zhang from east to west and a depth of 60 zhang from south to north, covering an area of 150 acres. The southern part of the concession includes part of PenPu Port.Bickers, R. (2013). 8. British Concessions and Chinese Cities, 1910s–1930s. In New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities (pp. 155–195). Brill.

The development of Kuling in Mountain Lu

In the early 20th century,

Kuling Kuling (), now called Guling, was a summer European missionary resort located on top of Mountain Lu, Jiujiang, China. Now it is the tourist and administration center in the Mountain Lu National Park, a World Heritage Site. , it has 5 residenti ...

on top of

became the summer resort for international residents because of its beautiful geological landscape and nice climate. At the golden age, over 4000 foreigners from America and European countries lived in this small town in summer time. Kuling, on the slopes of a wide valley of Mountain Lu, was established in 1895 by the missionaries Edward Selby Little,

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and three others, as a sanitarium and rest resort for Western missionaries in southern China. They built their houses in the colonial style of architecture, and added churches, schools, and sports facilities. It was named by Little, as a pun: it is wonderfully ''cooling'' after the summer heat in the plains below. It was also a word that sounded conveniently Chinese to the local people, and has been adopted by them. Kuling was run by the missionaries in a Kuling Council that sold the plots of the land and with the proceeds paid for local services and security. In 1910, Caroline Maddock Hart and four others met to found the Nurses Association of China; with Caroline Maddock Hart being its first president.

Modern history

Until 1949 Jiujiang had very little industry except for local handicrafts. Manufacturing is Jiujiang's backbone today with auto, machinery, petrochemical, shipbuilding and textiles as its cornerstones. After the completion of the

Yangtze River Bridge The bridges and tunnels across the Yangtze River carry rail and road traffic across China's longest and largest river and form a vital part of the country's transportation infrastructure. The river bisects China proper from west to east, and eve ...

in 1992 and the Beijing to Kowloon (Hong Kong) and Wuhan to Shanghai rail systems laid, a convenient ground corridor was provided and a regional airport now serves most of China's capital cities. In 2005, an earthquake hit Ruichang.

Kuling American School Association Kuling (), now called Guling, was a summer European missionary resort located on top of Mountain Lu, Jiujiang, China. Now it is the tourist and administration center in the Mountain Lu National Park, a World Heritage Site. , it has 5 resident ...

donated 200 sets of desks and chairs and more than 50 sets of Oxford English-Chinese Dictionary to a local primary school near Ruichang.

Economy

Economic and Technological Development Zones

:*Jiujiang Free Trade (Tariff-free) Zone :*Jiujiang National Economical and Technological Development Zone :*Jiujiang Gongqingcheng National High-tech Industrial Development Zone

Latest Ranking in the Chinese Cities

In 2021, Jiujiang's GDP is 373.528 Billion Yuan. Jiujiang's GDP ranks 70th among all Chinese cities.

Demography

The city administers a total population of approximately 4,600,276 at the 2020 census of whom approximately 2,814,240 are urban living in the urban area. The population density is 240 per km².

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make up 99.8% of the population. Registered residents include 25 ethnic minorities. Six of them are major minorities in Jiujiang. They are:

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Miao Miao may refer to: * Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China * Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages * Miao (Unicode ...

, Zhuang,

Tujia Tujia may refer to: *the Tujia people *the Tujia language The Tujia language (Northern Tujia: Bifzivsar, ; Southern Tujia: Mongrzzirhof, ; ) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken natively by the Tujia people in Hunan Province, China. It is unclassif ...

, and

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. Jiujiang dialect is unlike typical

Gan The word Gan or the initials GAN may refer to: Places *Gan, a component of Hebrew placenames literally meaning "garden" China * Gan River (Jiangxi) * Gan River (Inner Mongolia), * Gan County, in Jiangxi province * Gansu, abbreviated ''Gā ...

dialect of Jiangxi. Jiujiang dialect is a variety of

Lower Yangtze Mandarin Lower Yangtze Mandarin () is one of the most divergent and least mutually-intelligible of the Mandarin languages, as it neighbours the Wu, Hui, and Gan groups of Sinitic languages. It is also known as Jiang–Huai Mandarin (), named after the ...

and is close to Wu languages.

Climate

Industry

Primary industries include: * Manufacturing * Petrochemical Refinement * Tourism * Import/Export (through river port) * Agricultural Chemical Production

Transport

Road

G56 Hangzhou–Ruili Expressway The Hangzhou–Ruili Expressway (), designated as G56 and commonly referred to as the Hangrui Expressway () is an expressway in China that connects the cities of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and Ruili, Yunnan, a city on the border with Burma. When complete, ...

G70 Fuzhou–Yinchuan Expressway The Fuzhou–Yinchuan Expressway (), designated as G70 and commonly referred to as the Fuyin Expressway () is an expressway that connects the cities of Fuzhou, Fujian, China, and Yinchuan, Ningxia. It is in length. The expressway was completed wi ...

*Jiujiang Ring Expressway *Chang-Jiu Expressway *Jiu-Rui Expressway *G45 Daguang Expressway *Yongwu Expressway *Penghu Expressway *Xiu-ping Expressway *Du-Jiu Expressway *Dong-jiu Expressway

Rail

* Beijing-Kowloon * Tongling–Jiujiang * Hefei–Jiujiang * Wuhan–Jiujiang * Nanchang–Jiujiang Intercity Railway *Chang-jiu intercity railway *Wu-jiu high speed railway *Jiujing-qu railway *He-an-Jiu passenger dedicated line *Fu-gang-jiu passenger dedicated line *Chang-jiu high speed railway.

Air

* Jiujiang Lushan Airport (JIU)

Port

Jiujiang Port is the largest port in Jiangxi Province located at the junction of the Yangtze River, Poyang Lake and the Beijing-Kowloon Railway. From west to east, this port consists of five docks namely Ruichang, Chengxi, Chengqu, Hukou and Pengze. As an important port situated on the lower and middle reaches of Yangtze River and one of the 5 main ports on the river, many domestic and international marine routes have been established, In the main, the freight handled consists of mineral building materials, coals, metal and nonmetal ores and petroleum.

Yangtze Bridges

At present, Jiujiang has two Bridges built across the Yangtze River. They are

Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge The Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge is a combined road-rail bridge over the Yangtze River near the city of Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province in eastern China. It links Xunyang District of Jiujiang, south of the river, with Xiaochi Town in Huangmei County ...

and

Jiujiang Yangtze River Expressway Bridge The Jiujiang Yangtze River Expressway Bridge (), also known as the Second Jiujiang Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Yangtze River between Huangmei, Huanggang, in Hubei province and Jiujiang, in Jiangxi province. The bridge carries six ...

. The third bridge across the Yangtze River in Jiujiang is under construction. The fourth bridge across the Yangtze River in Jiujiang is being designed

Colleges and universities

Jiujiang Vocational College of Finance and Economics

* University of Jiujiang: a university located in Lianxi District. The location is most easily reached by the 101 bus from the city center. *

Jiangxi Vocational College of Finance and Economics Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hi ...

: a small picturesque college located right by the lake. This college is well situated within the city. *

Jiujiang Vocational and Technical College Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang, is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level city ...

: a vocational college located in Lianxi District near University of Jiujiang. *

Jiujiang Vocational University Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang, is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level city ...

: a vocational college located in Lianxi District near University of Jiujiang. *

Jiangxi Fenglin College Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hi ...

: a vocational college located in Yongxiu county.Yongxiu county belongs to Jiujiang. *

Jiujiang Vocational College of Polytechnic Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang, is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level city ...

: a vocational college located in Jiujiang Economic and Technological Development Zone. * Gongqing Institute of Science and Technology: a vocational college located in Gongqingcheng. Gongqingcheng belongs to Jiujiang. *

Gongqing College of Nanchang University Gongqingcheng () is a sub-prefecture-level city in northern Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, established on 10 September 2010. It was formerly under the administration of Jiujiang City, the downtown to the northeast, and is locate ...

: a local college located in Gongqingcheng. * Science and Technology College of Jiangxi Normal University: a local college located in Gongqingcheng. *

Modern Economics and Management College of Jiangxi Finance and Economics University Modern may refer to: History *Modern history ** Early Modern period ** Late Modern period *** 18th century *** 19th century *** 20th century ** Contemporary history * Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century Philosophy ...

: a local college located in Gongqingcheng. *

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: a vocational college located in Gongqingcheng. * Science and Technology College of Nanchang University: a local college located in Gongqingcheng. *

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: a local vocational college located in Gongqingcheng.

International relations

Former Diplomatic Representives in Jiujiang

* British Consulate General Jiujiang was established in 1861 * Japanese Consulate General Jiujiang was established on July 16, 1915

Twin towns — Sister cities

Jiujiang is twinned with: * Baw Baw, Australia *

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, Greece * Jeongseon, South Korea * Kajaani, Finland *

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Tourism

: one of the most famous mountains in China. It is located in the south of the urban center and listed as a

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. * Mountain Lu Geopark: is located on Mountain Lu. In 1996, Mountain Lu became a UNESCO

. In 2004, the Mountain Lu Geopark became a member of

Global Geoparks Network UNESCO Global Geoparks (UGGp) are geoparks certified by the UNESCO Global Geoparks Council as meeting all the requirements for belonging to the Global Geoparks Network (GGN). The GGN is both a network of geoparks and the agency of the United Nati ...

. Mountain Lu Geopark is a place of striking beauty. It has spectacular peaks, lakes, cliffs, waterfalls and important Buddhist and Taoist temples. *

: as a homonym for cooling. It is a mountain town in the Mountain Lu National Park. It was established in 1895 by the missionaries Edward Selby Little, Dr. Edgerton Haskell Hart and three others, as a sanitarium and summer resort for Western missionaries in southern China. * British Concession Museum: located on Binjiang road. It was established by local government from transforming buildings left from the former British Concession of Jiujiang. * Yuliang South Road Historical and Cultural Block: a street combines Chinese and Western cultures. Beside the street are: **the old Catholic school **the old monastery **the Catholic church **Taling Park **the old Perkins Villa **Nengren temple **Western Goods Exhibition Window *

Lushan Hotspring Mountain Lu or Lushan (, Gan: Lu-san), officially named Mountain Lu National Park, is a mountain in China. It was also known as Kuanglu () in ancient times. It is situated in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, and is one of the most renowned mountai ...

: located in Hotspring town, Lushan City. Lushan City is a county-level city belong to Jiujiang. * Haiyun Sand Beach: located in Balihu Park. It is the only high standard man-made beach in

Province. It is a famous scenic spot and entertainment resort in Jiujiang. *

Xunyang River Scenic Area Xunyang may refer to: *Xunyang, Shaanxi (旬阳市), a county-level city in Ankang, Shaanxi, China *Xunyang District Xunyang District () is a district of the city of Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China. Administrative divisions Xunyang District ha ...

: located on Binjiang Road in

. It is near shoreline of the Yangtze River. Covering an area of some 765 acres (around 509,490 sqm), with distance of 5.2 km long from east to west. It is only 4.5 km away from Jiujiang Station, 1.6 km away from Fuzhou-Yinchuan Expressway, and about an hour's drive from Changbei Airport. Its rich tourism resources include river, ancient building, garden and museum as follows: **Pipa Pavilion **Xunyang Tower **Suojiang Pagoda ** British Concession Museum **Baishui Lake Park **Xunyang River Cruise Ship * Mountain Lu West Sea: is located about 90 kilometers to the south of Mountain Lu. It is National 5-Star Scenic Spot. There are thousands of islands in the area just like Maldives. In 2007, between June and August, American reality program Survivor filmed its fifteenth season, '' Survivor: China'', in the area. The program host Jeff Probst claimed that this was the first American television series filmed entirely in China. *Nanshan Park (): completed in early 2013. This park, home to a new pagoda, is covered in flora and lights up the Jiujiang sky at night. *Yanshui Pavilion: located in city center, near Gantang lake. It is a well known scenic spot in Jiujiang. * Donglin Temple: a Buddhist temple located at foot of Mountain Lu. It is built by Huiyuan (Buddhist), founder of

Pure Land Buddhism Pure Land Buddhism (; ja, 浄土仏教, translit=Jōdo bukkyō; , also referred to as Amidism in English,) is a broad branch of Mahayana Buddhism focused on achieving rebirth in a Buddha's Buddha-field or Pure Land. It is one of the most wid ...

. Pure Land Buddhism later spread to Japan and gained its prominence there. In 1175,

Hōnen was the religious reformer and founder of the first independent branch of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism called . He is also considered the Seventh Jōdo Shinshū Patriarch. Hōnen became a Tendai initiate at an early age, but grew disaffected and ...

established Pure Land Buddhism as an independent sect in Japan known as

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. Pure Land schools have nearly 40 percent of Japanese Buddhism practitioners, only second to

Chan Chan may refer to: Places *Chan (commune), Cambodia *Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada People *Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田) *Chan Caldwel ...

schools. **The temple provide free vegetarian lunch and free guest house. Visitors can stay at guest house in temple for free up to three days. The guest house is gender separated, and visitors have to share room with others. *

Donglin Buddha Donglin may refer to: *Donglin Academy, academy established in the Northern Song dynasty at present-day Wuxi in China *Donglin movement The Donglin movement () was an ideological and philosophical movement of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties ...

: the world's tallest statue of Amitabha Buddha. Total cost is about 1 billion Yuan. Surface of the Buddha is plated with 48 kilograms of gold. Buddha height is 48 meters tall, representing the forty-eighth vows of Amitabha Buddha. Total height is 81 meters. *Mountain Lu Four Seasons Flower City (Botanical Garden): located in Bali lake New Area. It is Jiujiang's largest flower plant park. *Stone Bell Hill: just downriver from Jiujiang is Hukou where the Yangtze River and waters of Boyang Lake converge with an abrupt color change. People have been coming here for centuries to listen to the stone-bell sound resonating from the cliffs overlooking this spot. A few theories are provided why this rare geographical phenomenon happens. Li Daoyuan from the Northern Wei period (386–534) theorizes that it is because the hill has a bell-shaped appearance and hollow inside, thus providing the sound when struck. Or it may be because of the water lapping within the limestone nooks and fissures around its base, as famous litterateur from the same time Su Shui discovered. Su Dongpo also did three trips around its perimeter, before settling on this last explanation for its unique sound also. Many Chinese literati's have left more than twenty calligraphy masterpieces carved upon its rocks, with some dating back to the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE).

Notable residents

* Mary Stone (Shi Meiyu) (1873–1954), one of the first western trained Chinese female physicians. Founder of Elizabeth Skelton Danforth Hospital (now called Jiujiang Women and Children's Hospital) in Jiujiang. *Lo-Yi Chang (1907–1988), was born in

. She was spouse of

T.V. Soong Soong Tse-vung, more commonly romanized as Soong Tse-ven or Soong Tzu-wen (; 4 December 1894 – 25 April 1971), was a prominent businessman and politician in the early 20th-century Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China, who served a ...

, then Premier of the Republic of China. She has made a significant contribution to the promotion of China overseas. * Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973), was the first American woman won Nobel Prize in Literature, for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China, in 1938. She also won Pulitzer Prize in 1932. She spent her childhood with her family in

in summer time. Her father built a stone villa in Kuling in 1897, and lived there until his death in 1931. * (松浦正人) (1942– ), born in Jiujiang. He was a Japanese politician. He served as Hōfu mayor and president of National Mayors Association of Japan. In 2018, then Hōfu mayor and president of National Mayors Association of Japan (NMAJ), Masato Matsuura (松浦正人), led a delegation of NMAJ visited former Japanese consulate of Jiujiang. Masato Matsuura said :''I was born in the former Japanese consulate of Jiujiang. Jiujiang is my second hometown. I am deeply attached to the beautiful landscape here''. * Chiang Yee (1903–1977), born in Jiujiang. He was a Chinese poet, author, painter and calligrapher. His translation of ''Coca Cola'' is remembered by all Chinese. *

Mervyn Peake Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the '' Gormenghast'' books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived ...

(1911–1968), born in

. He was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He was well known for being the illustrator of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. *

Maggie Mac Neil Hannah Margaret McNair "Maggie" Mac NeilHer surname is sometimes incorrectly rendered as MacNeil in news reporting and television graphics. (born 26 February 2000) is a Canadian competitive swimmer. A 100 metre butterfly event specialist, she ...

(2000- ), born in Jiujiang and adopted to Canada at an early age *

Sylvia Wu Sylvia Wu (née Cheng; ; October 24, 1915 – September 29, 2022) was a Chinese-American restaurateur, philanthropist, and cookbook writer. She ran Madame Wu's Garden on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1998. She later briefly op ...

(1915–2022), born in Kiukiang and later became a Los Angeles restaurateur and a writer.

References

External links

People's Government of Jiujiang (Chinese language)

Mountain Lu Website (Chinese language)

Jiujiang News Network (Chinese language)

Kuling American School Association
{{Authority control Cities in Jiangxi Prefecture-level divisions of Jiangxi Port cities and towns in China Populated places on the Yangtze River