Jiangxi province, called Gan for short, lies to the south of the Yangzi River valley. It has a total area of 167,000 square kilometers and a population of 38.27 million.

Jiangxis countryside varies from flat plains in the north to beautiful mountains in the east, south, and west. The land surface is a bit like a basin. 70% of the region is mountains and hills, and from here most of the major rivers originates, They flow through the province before emptying into Lake Boyang which then joins the Yangzi River in the north. Jiangxi has a subtropical monsoon climate. 

The province is rich in mineral deposits. Tungsten ore and copper ore are the main minerals here. Besides some other minerals, such as coal, iron ore, sulphuretted iron ore, lead ore, zinc ore, and rock salt are also available. 

Jiangxi province is a major producer of rape, timber, and fresh-water fish. Its chief crops are rice and rape. 

The heavy industry of Jiangxi consists of ferrous metal making, ceramics making, engineering, chemical factories, cement factories, and power plants. The positions of ferrous metal and ceramics industries are prominent not only in the province but in China as well. The light industry includes textile, food processing, tea processing, and the manufacturing of paper and sugar. 

The transportation of this province depends to a great extent on its railways, roads and waterways. 

Jiangxi province has many beautiful mountains, rivers and historical relics. Lushan mountain, Jinggang mountain, Sanqing mountain, and Longhu mountain are the most well-known mountains in China. 

The province is also famous for its local traditional products: ceramics made in Jingdezhen, porcelain pictures made in Nanchang, Qianshan bamboo handcraft, Lushan tea, Jinggang mountain bamboo shoots, Nanfeng sweet oranges, and Nanan ducks.

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Jingdezhen

As the world-famed ceramic capital, Jingdezhen City has a long history of ceramics making and a rich cultural heritage. In accordance with the historical records, Xinping (as the city was known as then) began to make pottery in Han Dynasty. It is evident that pottery was first made in Jingdezhen in Han Dynasty. In the first year in Jingde Reign of Song Dynasty (1004), the royal court decreed the city made porcelain wares for imperial use with the wording Made during the Jingde Reign printed on the bottom of every piece. Hence the city got its name Jingdezhen. From Yuan Dynasty to Ming and Qing Dynasty, emperors sent their officials to Jingdezhen to supervise the manufacture of royal porcelain. They set up the Porcelain Office and built the royal kiln, which produced many wonderful ceramic articles. Among them were those particularly famous for the four classic decorations: blue and white, famille rose, rice-pattern and color glaze. The porcelain made in Jingdezhen enjoys the praise of as white as jade, as thin as paper, as sound as a bell, as bright as a mirror .Guo Moruo (a famous historian and scholar) highly praised the brilliant ceramic history and culture in Jingdezhen and the ceramics connected the Jingdezhen to the world closely with the poem that China is well known by the porcelain, the famous porcelains are made in this city.

Lushan

Lushan, or Kuling, as it was called in English, was established as a mountain resort town by European and American settlers late last century as an escape from lowland Chinas sweaty summers.

They left a fascinating hotchpotch of colonial buildings, from quaint stone cottages reminiscent of southern Germany to small French-style churches and more grandiose hotels built in classical Victorian style.

Despite this, Lushan is not a particularly attractive proposition as a travel destination. For much of the year it is bitterly cold and shrouded in heavy fog, and then for the summer season, which sees it at its best, it is inundated with tourists from all over the country.

For the Chinese, however, Lushan is rich with significance. Its mountain vistas have been the subject of poems and paintings, and on the historical front it has been the site of some epoch-making events.

Jinggangshan

The remote Jinggangshan region, in the Luoxiao mountains along the Hunan-Jiangxi border, played a crucial role in the early Communist movement.

After suffering a string of defeats in an urban-based revolution in the cities, Mao led a core of 900 men into the refuge of these misty hills in 1927. They were soon joined by other companies of the battered Communist Army led by Zhu De, and from here began the Long March.