Jingyu County (), formerly Méngjiāng County () until February 1946, is a county in southern

Jilin Jilin (; Postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kirin or Chilin) is one of the three Provinces of China, provinces of Northeast China. Its capital and largest city is Changchun. Jilin borders North Korea (Rasŏn, North Hamgyong, R ...

province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of

Baishan Baishan (, ko, 백산시) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Jilin province, in the Dongbei (northeastern) part of China. "" literally means "White Mountain", and is named after Changbai Mountain (, also known as Paektu Mountain (Kor ...

City. It is named after General

Yang Jingyu Yang Jingyu (; February 13, 1905 – February 23, 1940), born Ma Shangde (, in Queshan, Henan (today's suburb of Zhumadian City) into a local farmer's family, was a Chinese Communist, commander-in-chief and political commissar of the Firs ...

, who was killed here during World War II.

Administrative divisions

There are seven

towns A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an or ...

and five townships under the county's administration.

Geography and climate

Jingyu is located in southern Jilin and the northern part of Baishan City on the upper reaches of the

Songhua River The Songhua or Sunghwa River (also Haixi or Xingal, russian: Сунгари ''Sungari'') is one of the primary rivers of China, and the longest tributary of the Amur. It flows about from the Changbai Mountains on the China–North Korea bo ...

amidst the western periphery of the

Changbai Mountains The Changbai Mountains ( simplified Chinese:长白山; traditional Chinese:長白山) are a major mountain range in Northeast Asia that extends from the Northeast Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning, across the border bet ...

. The bordering county-level divisions are Fusong County to the east,

Jiangyuan District Jiangyuan District () is a district of the city of Baishan, Jilin province, People's Republic of China. Administrative Divisions There are seven towns and four townships. Towns: * Sunjiabaozi (), Wangou (), Songshu The ''Book of Song'' (''S� ...

to the south,

Huinan Huinan County () is a county of southwestern Jilin province, China. It is under the administration of Tonghua City, with a population of 350,000 residing in an area of . Administrative divisions There are 10 towns and one ethnic township. Towns: ...

to the west, and Huadian to the north. Its latitude ranges from 42° 06' to 42° 48' N and longitude 126° 30' to 127° 16' E. The average elevation in the county is , though the county seat is only at . Jingyu has a

monsoon A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscil ...

-influenced,

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freez ...

( Köppen ''Dwb''), with long, bitterly cold winters, and short, warm and rainy summers. Spring and autumn are short with some rainfall. The monthly 24-hour average temperature in January is , and in July, and the annual mean is . The mountainous location means that

diurnal temperature variation In meteorology, diurnal temperature variation is the variation between a high air temperature and a low temperature that occurs during the same day. Temperature lag Temperature lag is an important factor in diurnal temperature variation: peak da ...

is large, reaching in winter, but precipitation is enhanced: the annual average is , with more than 80% of it falling from May to September. The frost-free period lasts only 104 days.

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{{authority control Baishan County-level divisions of Jilin Songhua River