Jinagxi was said to be a wealthy land neighboring Zhejian, Hubei, Guangdong and Fujian Provinces, enjoying the honor of "a naturally blessed place, abundant in substance and talented intellectuals".  Its splendid and exotic natural environment lace with the profound and far-reaching human history bring together wonderful results.

(1) Abundant natural resources. The mineral resources in this province are rich in variety, and its deposits are always large which posess high exploitation potential. So far, 160 types of mines have been discovered. Among them, 101 out of 160 have  confirmed the deposit amount .The deposit of silver, copper, uranium, and 12 other mineral rank first in the country. The deposits of wolfram, gold, and 21 other minerals rank second and third in the nation wide. The nonferrous metal, rare metal, precious metal and rare earth metal have a more competitive advantage. The gold, silver, copper, wolfram, uranium, tantalum, niobium are well-known as the seven most important and famous mines of the province. Now, the province has formed the scale-exploitation of copper, wolfram, rare earth and many other minerals. Dexing has the largest copper mine in the country. Guixi smelter is the largest copper smelter base in the country, with a smelting capability of 45,000 tons per year. Jiangxi with its abundant water resources enjoys clean and high quality water. The theoretical water power capacity is 6.82 million kw, 6.1 million kw of which can be exploited. The whole province has 2,800 cubic meters of water resources per capita, which is more than the whole country's average level by73%. The area of fresh water is 25,000,000 mu, and ranks third in the whole country with 9.3%. There are many rivers and lakes in the Jiangxi province and water ways are very convenient. The waterhead of the Dongjiang River which takes its way down to the Pearl river Delta is located in the Sanbai Mountain south of the province.

(2) Wonderful ecology environment. Jiangxi's lush vegetation carpets the mountains, giving it a green appearance with spectacular scenery. Its forest area amounts to 0.143 billion mu .The forest coverage rates reaches 63.1%and takes the lead in the country. It has 8 state scenic resorts: the Lushan Mountaqin, the Jinggang Mountain, the Sanqing Mountain, the Dragon and Tiger Mountain, the Sanbai Mountain, the Fairy Maiden Lake, the Meiling Mountain range, the Turtle Mountain and so forth; five state protected natural regions, such as Poyang Lake and 14 state forest parks. Lunshan Mountain boasts of having a reputation of the best mountain scenery in the country, famous for its lakes and brooks, waterfall-like fountains, clouds and mist up on the summits, exotic mountain rocks and steep precipices, etc. All these scenic sights form Lushan's"exotic, special, beautiful, and splendid"attributes. It also has been listed in the UN's list of the World Culture Legacy and the World Geological Park. Poyang Lake is the biggest fresh water lake in China. A state protection region for migratory birds has been set up in the lake. When it becomes wintertime, hundreds of migratory birds rest here to stay for the whole winter, which makes it a wonderful attraction of the lake. Today's Jiangxi has paid close attention to its ecological environmental protection, trying to balance the two sides: one of economic development, the other of ecological improvement.

(3) Profound culture deposition. It has a long history and has long been known for its prosperous culture and history. Such profound culture left the Jiangxi people with many famous culture sights and resorts. Nanchang city, Jingdezhen city and Ganzhou city are all state named culture and historic cities. The Tengwang pavilion in Nanchang is one of the most famous of the three pavilions in the southern Yangtze River area. The famous genius Wangbo, who is an talented ancient poet in the Tang Dynasty , had once praised the beautiful scenery from Tengwang pavilion :"colorful sunsets flies with the back home birds, the clear sky and the waters meet at the horizon." Jingdezhen's ancient porcelain ware kiln, Ganzhou city's eight sight-seeing balcony, Yueyan's Liukeng villages, Anyi's ancient village group sight and so on all recorded the radical culture history of Jiangxi. Having been the birth place of Taoism and the third school of Buddhism, Jiangxi now has the Donglin Temple in the Lushan Mountain, the Jiujiang Nengren Temple, the Zhenru Temple in the Yunshan Mountain, the Jingju Temple in Ji'an, the Tianshi Mansion in the Dragon and Tiger Mountain, which are altogether five key state temples. The olden academy of classical learning had once been famous in the whole country, especially the Bailu Cave Academy in Lushan Mountain which is one of the four most famous academies for classical learning in China. Jiangxi is a place where intellectuals and talented people gathered. Since ancient times, eight great men of letters in Tang and Song Dynasties, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi and Zenggong were from Jiangxi. And there were also Neo-Confucian Zhuxi, idyllic poet---Tao Yuanming , Huang Tingjian, Tang Xianzhu, Wen Tianxiang, Yang Wanli, etc other famous historical figures. Now there are memorial halls of these historical figures.

(4) Well-known revolution base area. During the new democratic revolutionary time in modern China, the Chinese Communist Party created many "first"deeds in Jiangxi. The first revolutionary bullet was fired in Jiangxi. In 1927, Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting, Zhu De, Liu Bochen organized and led the famous "August 1st Nanchang Uprising". The first red revolutionary base was funded in Jiangxi. In 1927, Mao Zedong established the first revolutionary base area in Jinggang Mountain, and began its great revolutionary road "  from countryside to cities". Therefore, the Jinggang Mountain is called the "cradle"of China's revolution, which had left many sacred revolutionary memorial spots, such as Ciping in Jinggang Mountain, other  five places in Jinggang Mountain, the Five posts. At the same time, many revolution legends were passed down with these famous revolution memorial spots, for example, legends about the army restructuring in Yongxin County, battles on Huangyangjie and the lamp light in House of Bajiaolou where Mao Zedong lived. The first Chinese Soviet Central government was born in Jiangxi, too. In 1931, the first session of the National Congress of Chinese Soviets were held in Ruijin south of the province, which declared the establishment of the Chinese Soviet provisional Central Government of China which heralded the birth of the New China. The Great Long March also began its first step here. In 1934, the Central Red Army started its Long March in Ruijin , which shook the whole world.

(5) Numerous local specialties. The history of Jingdezhen's porcelain ware is very long. These porcelain made in Jingdezhen, "as white as jade, as lustrous as a mirror, as thin as paper, and as resonant as a chime", is selling well both at home and abroad. The China's English name is "CHINA", which comes from foreigners' understanding of chinaware. The"Four Specialty Liquor", whose name originated from late China's Premier Zhou Enlai's praise of the wine:"clean, fragrant, rich, and pure".

Gougunao Tea produced in Suicuan County once received the Gold Award at the Panama International Food Fair; the Nanfeng Honey Tangerine was once the tribute to royal families. also, the fog tea from Lushan Mountain, Fuyaoxianzi tea, Chinese kiwi fruit, naval orange from Gannan, Zao pear from Shangrao, salted duck from Nan'an, the black-boned chicken from Taihe, gray geese from Xingguo County, JMC auto vehicles, the Phoenix Brand cameras, Jinsheng Brand cigarettes, woodcuts from Yunjiang County, of which nine are Chinese Famous Brand products.

Editor: Catherine