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Brief Introduction To Jilin Province
Geographical location: Jilin
province is located in the central part of Northeast China, adjoining
Heilongjiang Province in the north, Lianing Province in the south, and the Inner
Mongolian Autonomous Region in the west. It lies in the hinterland of the
northeastern Asia composed of Japan, Russia, the Democratic People¡¦s Republic of
Korea, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, and the northeast part of China,
adjacent to Russia in the east, and opposite to the DPRK in the southeast across
the Tumen and Yalu rivers. Located between 122-131 degrees E and 41-46 degrees
N., its territory covers 187,400 square kilometers, accounting for 2 percent of
the nation¡¦s total, which extend 650 km from east to west, and 300 km from south
to north. The land is high in the southeastern part and low in the northwestern,
with a vast plain lying in its mid-west.
Climate: Jilin Province is located in the middle
latitudes of the northern hemisphere, east of the Euro-Asian continent, the
northernmost section of the temperate zone in China, nearing the sub-frigid
zone. The eastern part of the province is close to the Yellow Sea and the Sea of
Japan, where the atmosphere is moist often accompanied with much rain. The  climate of
its western part, which is far from the sea and approaches to the arid Mongolian
Plateau, is dry. As a whole, the province has a distinct temperate continental
monsoon climate with a clear-cut change of four seasons. The yearly average
temperature of most part of the province is 3-5 ¢XC. The annual time of sunshine
is 2,200¡X3,000 hours. The annual average accumulated temperature in activity is
2,700¡X3,600 ¢XC. The precipitation of the province in a year is 550¡X910 mm and
the frost-free period lasts 120¡X160 days. With hot and rainy days in the same
season, it is good for farming. The frost period begins in the last 10 days of
September and lasts until the end of April or early May.
Tourism resources: The province boasts rich tourism resources. In the provincial
capital Changchun, there are the former government office of the Manchurian
State established by the Japanese invaders during World War II, the Jingyuetan
Forest Park, the Monument to the Martyrs of the Soviet Red Army, the Automobile
Town, and the Changchun Film Studio. In Jilin City, there are the mountain city
of Gaojuli on Mount Longtans; Beishan Park; the Songhua Lake in Fengman; the
Baohai Ancient Tombs in Mount Liuding of Dunhua; the Chengzishan mountain city
in Yanji; the Changbeishan Nature Reserve that covers a vast area in the three
counties of Changbei, Antu and Fusong and boasts scenic spots such as the
Heavenly Pond, waterfalls, and groups of hot springs and grand canyons. In
Tonghua, there is the Tomb of General Yang Jingyu.
Agriculture: Jilin is one of the
important commodity grain bases in China. It abounds with soybean, corn,
sorghum, millet, rice, small red bean, wheat, tuber, sunflower seeds, beets and
tobacco. It has been among the national top in terms of percapita, commercial
grain proportion for many years. About 2.96 million hectares of prairies in the
province's northwest make it an ideal place for animal husbandry production, a
well-known pasture land for sheep in the country as well as a major production
base of commercial cattle and fine wool sheep in North China.
Industry: Jilin Province has a very
solid industrial base. Relatively perfect industry system has come into being.
There are more than 14, 000 industrial enterprises now in Jilin and six dominant
industries, which are engineering industry, petrochemical industry,
pharmaceutical industry food industry, metallurgical and forestry industry.
Jilin leads the country in its production of automobiles, railway cares,
tractors, ferroalloy, carbonic products, timber, sugar, crude oil, vegetable oil
and no-mineral products.
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