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Jinxi County is located in the eastern part of Jiangxi Province, China, under the city of Fuzhou, and is situated in the transition zone between the Ganfu Plain and the Wuyi Mountains. With a total area of 1,358 square kilometers and a population of about 300,000, the county has a subtropical monsoon climate with four distinct seasons. Jinxi has a long history, founded in the Northern Song Dynasty and named after the Jinxi water in its territory. It has a rich cultural heritage and clusters of ancient villages, such as the Bamboo Bridge Ancient Village and the Huwan Ancient Town, and is known as the "Hometown of Books in the South of the Yangtze River" and the "Hometown of Engraving and Printing".
Jinxi is based on agriculture, producing rice, honey oranges and tea, while developing spice processing and electronic information industries, making it an important natural spice production base in China. The territory is rich in mineral resources, rich in china clay and granite. The transportation is convenient, with Jiguang Expressway and several provincial highways running through the whole territory, about 40 kilometers away from downtown Fuzhou City.
Jinxi preserves more than 1,000 ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, among which the woodcut engraving and printing technique of Huwan Town is listed in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage. Major attractions include Shushan Temple, Lu Xiangshan's former residence and Cuiyunfeng Forest Park, blending Confucian culture, Buddhist relics and natural ecological landscapes, making it an important humanistic tourist destination in the eastern part of Gan.
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