Yongxin County () is a county in the west of

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, bordering

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

province to the west. It is located within the

Jinggang Mountains The Jinggang Mountains (), historically rendered as Chingkang Mountains are a mountain range of the Luoxiao Mountains System (罗霄山), in the border region of Jiangxi and Hunan Provinces. The range lies at the junction of four counties - N ...

under the jurisdiction of the

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' ...

Ji'an Ji'an () is a prefecture-level city situated in the central region of Jiangxi province of the People's Republic of China while bordering Hunan province to the west. It has an area of and as of the 2020 census, had a population of 4,469,176, of ...

. The county was built in the ninth year of Jian'an in the

Eastern Han Dynasty The Han dynasty (, ; ) was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD), established by Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) and a warr ...

that is, in 204 AD. The name of the county was taken from ''

Great Learning The ''Great Learning'' or ''Daxue'' was one of the "Four Books" in Confucianism attributed to one of Confucius' disciples, Zengzi. The ''Great Learning'' had come from a chapter in the ''Book of Rites'' which formed one of the Five Classics. I ...

'', which means "the sun (日) is forever (永) and the moon (月) is new (新)". One of the villages in Yongxin, Sanwan Town, is known for the creation of the 1st regiment of the

Chinese Red Army The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army or Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, commonly known as the Chinese Red Army or simply the Red Army, are the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party. It was formed when Communist ...

led by

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...

with 1,000 soldiers that fled the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

after the failed

Autumn Harvest Uprising The Autumn Harvest Uprising was an insurrection that took place in Hunan and Kiangsi (Jiangxi) provinces of China, on September 7, 1927, led by Mao Tse-tung, who established a short-lived Hunan Soviet. After initial success, the uprising was ...

in 1927.

Demographics

At the end of 2021, the "

Hukou ''Hukou'' () is a system of household registration used in mainland China. The system itself is more properly called "''huji''" (), and has origins in ancient China; ''hukou'' is the registration of an individual in the system (''kou'' lit ...

" population (Chinese: 户籍人口) of Yongxin County was 523,683, a decrease of 1,478 from the end of the previous year. According to the data of the Seventh National Population Census in 2020, the total resident population (Chinese: 常住人口) of the county was 393,984 (excluding active-duty soldiers of the

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...

, residents of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and foreigners living in the district). Compared with the 475,580 people in the Sixth National Population Census, a total of 81,596 people has decreased in ten years, a decrease of 17.16%. In 2021, the birth rate of Yongxin County was 5.47‰, the death rate was 0.55‰, and the natural growth rate was 4.92‰

Geography

Overview

The landforms of the whole territory are dominated by mountains and hills. The terrain is high in the north and south and low in the middle, and slopes from the north and south sides to the middle. The highest peak in the whole territory is Qiushan Mountain, which is 1391 meters above sea level. The county's forest coverage rate is 70.8%.

Hydrology

The streams all merge into Heshui River (a tributary of the

Gan River The Gan River (, Gan: Kōm-kong) runs north through the western part of Jiangxi before flowing into Lake Poyang and thus the Yangtze River. The Xiang-Gan uplands separate it from the Xiang River of neighboring eastern Hunan. Two similarly sized ...

Climate

The climate of the district is

Humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between latitudes 25° and 40° ...

, with long hot summers and mild winters. The annual average temperature is 18.2 ℃, the annual average sunshine is 1756.9 hours, the annual average frost-free period is 283 days, and the annual average rainfall is 1530.7 mm.

Administrative divisions

At present Yongxin County has 1 subdistrict ,10 towns and 13 townships. The seat of the county locates at the Hechuan Town (禾川镇).

Demographics

Geography

Overview

Hydrology

Climate

Administrative divisions

1 subdistrict

10 towns

13 townships

References

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