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Jilin Province is in the central part of north-east China, adjoining Heilongjiang Province to the north,
Liaoning to the south, and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region on
the west. It lies in the hinterland of the north-eastern 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 122-131º E and 41º-46º
N. Its land mass embraces 187,400 square kilometres, accounting for 2% of the nation’s total, which extends 650
kilometres from east to west, and 300 kilometres from south to north. The land is high in the south-eastern part and low
in the north-western, with a vast plain lying in its mid-west.
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Climate: Jilin Province is located between the latitudes of the northern hemisphere, east of the
Euro-Asian continent, the northernmost section of the temperate zone in
China, and the sub-frigid zone. The eastern part of the province is close to the Yellow Sea and the Sea
of Japan, where the humid atmosphere reflects the heavy rainfalls.
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 ºC. The annual sunshine is
2,200-3,000 hours.
The precipitation of the
province in a year is 550-910 millimetres and the frost-free period totals 120-160 days. With hot and rainy days in the
same season, it is good for farming. The winter period begins in late September and frosts continue to the end of April
or early May.
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Tourism: The province boasts rich tourism resources. In the provincial capital
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Jilin winter vista |
Changchun, there are the former seat of government 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 areas of hot springs and
grand canyons. In Tonghua, there is the Tomb of General Yang Jingyu.
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Agriculture: Jilin is one of the important commodity grain bases in China. It abounds
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Songhua Lake, Jilin Province |
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 per capita, commercial grain proportion for many years. About
2,960,000 hectares of prairies in the province's north-west make it an ideal place for animal 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 an established industrial base. There are more than 14, 000
industrial enterprises now in Jilin, the six dominant industries, 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
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