General information

Jiangxi lies in the lower middle reaches of the south flank of the Yangtze River, over-looking the Dageng Mountain ranges and the Jiulian Mountain of the Guangdong Province in the south, adjoining the Luoxiao Mountain of the Hunan Province in the west, with the Wuyi Mountain neighboring the Fujian Province.  Since Jiangxi was under the charge of the Jiangnanxi administration area in the Tang Dynasty, people took the abbreviation of the ¡°Jiangnanxi administration¡± and then called it Jiangxi. The Zhangjiang and the Gongjiang River flow together to create the Gan River, whose name ¡°Gan¡± combines two Chinese characters. The Gan River is the largest river in the province, stretching all the way to the south. Therefore, the province gets another brief name ¡°Gan¡±.  Jiangxi covers an area of 169,000 square meters, with a total population of 42,540,000. The province established 11 cities: Nanchang city, Jiujiang city, Jingdezhen city, Pingxiang city, Yingtan ciry, Xinyu city, Yichun city, Shangrao city, Fuzhou city, Ji¡¯an city and Ganzhou city, totaling 99 counties.

GDP

In 2003, the provincial gross domestic product reached RMB 283 billion Yuan, up by 13.0% over the previous year.

GDP ratio (1st, 2nd and tertiary industries): 24.2 : 35 : 40.8.

Revenues

The fiscal revenue went up continuously. Increasing by 21.9%, the fiscal revenue amounts to 28.58 billion RMB.

Economy:
Agriculture: Jiangxi is an agriculture-oriented province. Its main agricultural output is among the top ten of China. In 2003, the value of agriculture output rose 2.7% to 84.163 billion yuan, grain output totaled 14.503 million tons, fell 6.4%.  

Industry:  Various industry systems have been set up, such as automobile, machinery building, electronics, chemical engineering, metallurgy, construction material, food, textile and medicine, etc. Some of the dominant industries and enterprises developed rapidly and became the backbone of Jiangxi's economy. In 2003, the provincial gross industrial increment reached RMB 84.9 billion Yuan, up by 18.4% over the previous year. In 2003, the value added of industries of  independent accounting industrial enterprises in the province was RMB 44.031 billion Yuan, up by 21.0% over the previous year, among which the public-owned  enterprises was RMB 19.92 billion Yuan, accounting for 45.2% of the total value added; the non-public enterprises was 24.111 billion yuan, accounting for 54.8%; the enterprises invested by the investors from foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan was RMB 4.714 billion Yuan, up 35.0%. Heavy Industry, with an increase of 20.1% to RMB 29.531 billion Yuan, developed faster than the light industry, which increased by 15.4% to RMB 14.499 billion Yuan.

Transportation
Water Transport:  Jiangxi has a good inland waterway system, which totals more than 5537 kilometers. There are 712 berths and 56 ports with a total annual designed handling capacity of over 10000 tons. Jiujiang is the only port city in the province.  With its advantageous geographical location situating on the intersection point of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Kowloon Railway, it has been a major distribution centre for Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei and Hunan provinces.  Jiujiang is also a major inland water-transportation centre at the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.  The Jiujiang Port, now opens to foreign trade, has a cargo-handling capacity of more than three million tons a year.  It can accommodate 5,000-ton freighters sailing directly to Hong Kong, Japan and other Southeast Asian countries.

Railways :  The province has a well-developed railway network.There are a total of 2241 kilometers railway lines and 200 railway stations within the province.   Major trunk railways include Jingjiu line(Beijing-Kowloon ), Zhegan line ( Hangzhou-Nanchang ), Yingxia line ( Yingtan-Xiamen ), Ninggan line ( Nanjing-Nanchang ) , Xiangjiu line( Xiangtang-Jiujiang ), Xiangji line ( Xiangtang-Ji'an ) and Wujiu line ( Wuhan-Jiujiang ).In coming years, a new national trunk railway running along the Yangtze River will be constructed.  The new railway will cross various provinces and municipalities including Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Chongqing and Shanghai and greatly enhance economic development of the Yangtze River Valley. Other railways that's under construction are: Gan-Long Line, Tong-Jiu Line.

Highways :  Jiangxi has established a comprehensive highway network including the Nanchang Bridge and the Nanchang-Jiaotan section of the Nanchang-Jinjiang motorway, Changzhang Expresswaybetween Nanchang and Zhangzhou, the Jiujiang-Jingdezhen Expressway and the Ganyue Expresswaylinking Nanchang, Ji'anand Ganzhouwith Guangdong province. Among the total length of 37,318 kilometers, 30.48% are of the first or second classes. Almost all the county-level areas have asphalt roads and all the towns have been open to traffic.In the Tenth Five-Year Plan, Jiangxi will construct 1,000 kilometers of new expressways and improve the conditions of over 10,000 existing expressways. The total amount of investment is expected to be over RMB 50 billion.

Air Transport:  There are five airports locating in Nanchang, Jiujiang, Jingdezhen, Ji'an and Ganzhou.  Chartered flight from Nanchang to Hong Kong is available. The 4D-level Changbei Airport in Nanchang forms the air transportation net with the airports in Ganzhou, Jingdezhen, Jiujiang,and so on, hence accelerating Jiangxi's opening-up to the outside world.

Editor: Donald