Ganzhou Overview

Ganzhou city lie in the upper reaches of Gan river, the south of Jiangxi, is abbreviated as the south of Jiangxi. Lie in east longitude between 113°54'-- 116°38', north latitude between 24°29'--27°09', in south edge of middle subtropical zone, belong to typical subtropical zone moist monsoon climate. Adjacent to Sanmin city and Longyan city of Fujian province in the east, border on Meizhou city, Heyuan city, Shaoguan city of Guangdong Province in the south, border on Binzhou city of Hunan province in the west, the north connect with JIan, Fuzhou two district of own province. Transition area in the southeast coastal area of our country and extend towards middle part hinterland. The city of Jiangxi state is the largest administrative area of Jiangxi Province, have jurisdiction over the Zhanggong district and Nankang, Ruijin two cities and Jiangxi counties, Xingguo, Yudu, Ningdu, Shicheng, Huichang, Xunwu, Anyuan, Dingnan, Quannan, Xinfeng, Dayu, Chongyi, Shangyou 15 counties, land area is 39,400 sq. km., 8,184,900 of total population in 2002. This city locate in south mountain range, Wuyi, Zhuguang three major mountain range hand over area, terrain is high sorruond, the middle is low. The ground form takes hills, mountain region as the core, take 83 percent of land area of the whole city.
The climatic conditions of south of Jiangxi are superior, the water resource is full and round. The south of Jiangxi locate in middle subtropical zone south edge, belong to typical subtropical zone moist monsoon climate, spring is early, summer is long, autumn is short, warm in winter, make a clear distinction between the four seasons, the rainfall is plentiful, the climate is pleasant. The average temperature of the whole year is 18.9 °C, 287 days of frost-free period, greater than and mean 10 °C accumulated temperature is 6012 °C(265 days), radiation amount of each square meter is 109.4 kilocalories. Annual average rainfall is 1574 millimetres, the total amount of annual precipitation is 63,013 million cubic meters. Receive marine favor of monsoon, at the drought of bending over, until other area have another more 100 inside the province rainfall autumn.
The urban agricultural natural resources is abundant, relying mainly on development orange, shaddock natural conditions that mandarin orange produce comprehensive to test team think the whole country can be rated as so that heavenning is munificent in southern mountain area Chinese Academy of Sciences especially, suitable for building into the mandarin orange commodity production base of the whole country in the south of Jiangxi. This city is large district of a agriculture of Jiangxi Province and industrial crops main producing region, have already built into national key forest zone and sugar industry, tobacco leaf, tangerine production base of the whole province now, the national related departments successively named urban abundant county of letter as the township of the navel orange, Shicheng county is high justice county of white lotus for Chinese township, Chongyi county is the township of bamboo, Gan county is the township of duck, Huichang county is the Chinese township of meat rabbit. This city mineral resources take coloured, scarce metallic ore as the core, have " whether world tungsten " claiming until " the rare metal is not scarce ". The reserves that the tungsten has been already verified take the first in the world. Rare earth verify reserves occupy second in the whole country. " five beauties " known as the mineral resources in Jiangxi Province are tungsten, copper, uranium, rare earth, tantalum niobium, four kinds of other main subsections are in the south of Jiangxi besides copper. Cross exploitation construction after founding the state, there is one of the metal bases of Pd especially of whole country.