Jingshan

The county has an area of over 3,520 km2. It has one economic development zone, jurisdiction 14 towns. Located approximately one hour's drive from the provincial capital Wuhan.

• Name — Jingshan • Other Name — Kingshan • Type — County-level city • Parts Type — Towns • Parts — 14 • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — People's Republic of China • Subdivision Type1 — Province • Subdivision Name1 — Hubei • Subdivision Type2 — Prefecture-level city • Subdivision Name2 — Jingmen • Unit Pref — Metric • Area Total Km2 — 3520 • Population Total — 645900 • Population As Of — 2016 • Population Density Km2 — auto • Time Zone1 — China Standard • Utc Offset1 — +8 • Postal Code Type — Postal code • Postal Code — 431800 • Website — (In Chinese) Jingshan County government website

• Illustration — Map including Jingshan (labeled as CHING-SHAN (KINGSHAN) 京山) (1953) There are 14 towns in Jingshan: • Name — Chinese (S) — Hanyu Pinyin • Xinshi — 新市 — Xīnshì • Yongxing — 永兴 — Yǒngxīng • Caowu — 曹武 — Cáowǔ • Luodian — 罗店 — Luódiàn • Songhe — 宋河 — Sònghé • Pingba — 坪坝 — Píngbà • Sanyang — 三阳 — Sānyáng • Lulin — 绿林 — Lùlín • Yangji — 杨集 — Yángjí • Sunqiao — 孙桥 — Sūnqiáo • Shilong — 石龙 — Shílóng • Yonglong — 永漋 — Yǒnglóng • Yanmenkou — 雁门口 — Yànménkǒu • Qianchang — 钱场 — Qiánchǎng

In 2002, 636,100 people lived in Jingshan. 403,100 of them were rural inhabitants whilst 233,000 formed the urban population. 320,100 of them were male and 316,000 female. The central towns have a total population of 233,200 inhabitants, 15,500 of them are mobile. In Jingshan the population density is 181 people per km 2 with an average life expectancy of 74.12 years. By the end of 2016, 645,900 people lived in Jingshan; 332,272 male and 313,713 female.

At the end of 2002, the city had 98846.37 hectares (1482695.6 acres) of farmland (29.56% of the total area), 31776.07 hectares (476641.00 acres) of water (9.51%) and 43040.54 hectares of unused land (645608.10 acres) accounting for 12.88% of the total.

Jingshan has rich mineral resources. After years of extensive geological studies, more than 20 kinds of minerals have been found in Jingshan. The main non-metallic mineral mines in the city include limestone (500 million tons), dolomite (700 million tons) and Silica (300 million tons).

The rivers of Jingshan are mainly fed by surface water and groundwater. The annual precipitation averages 1179 mm and the average annual runoff adds up to 350.5 mm, equivalent to 1.173 billion cubic meters. There are more than 500 rivers, 68 of them more than 10 kilometers long. Inside the county, the Block Reservoir, Ponds contain a total 1.329 billion cubic meters of water.

Major crops are rice, barley, broad beans, soybeans, and many varieties of corn. Native products are mainly mushrooms, fungi, bridge meters, chestnut, tea and seedless watermelons. The flora in Jingshan derive from 73 branches, 146 genera and 247 species. Pangolins, wolves, bifurcates, leopards, parrots and wildlife in general are protected according to law within the territory of the state.

In 2005, the city achieved a GDP of 7.1 billion. There are more than 100 enterprises, eleven of which are 10 million euro enterprises. 39 of them are 10 million yuan enterprises. Yearly exports reached 48 million U.S. dollars in 2005. Construction, machinery manufacturing, materials processing, textiles and garments, chemical metallurgy and food processing shape the five industrial clusters.