Jilin

- Total - Contribution to PRC

187.4 thousand km ² 1.95%

- Total 2010 - Density

27.4 million inhabitants 144 inhabitants / km ²

Jilin (Chinese吉林, Auspicious Santander forest ' ), and Kirin, is a province in the northeast of the People's Republic of China. There is also a homonymous town in this province, which is east of Changchun.

Geography

• Neighbouring provinces: Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia
• Bordering States: ( North ) Korea, Russia

The geographical features Jilin be in a Chinese saying with yi shan san shui - outlined (一山 三水a mountain three rivers).

• The mountain is the Changbai Mountains in the southeast.
• The three rivers are the border river Yalu Jiang, Songhua Jiang and the Liao He.

In Jilin, there is a certain continental north by the monsoon climate, with long cold winters and short warm summers. The average temperature in January varies from -20 to -14 ° C The average rainfall is 350 to 1000 mm.

Administratively Jilin is divided into eight prefecture-level cities and one autonomous district:

• Changchun City (长春 市),
• Jilin City (吉林市)
• Siping City (四平 市),
• Liaoyuan City (辽源 市),
• Tonghua City (通化 市),
• Baishan City (白山 市),
• Songyuan City (松原 市),
• Baicheng City (白 城市),
• Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian Koreans (延边 朝鲜族 自治州).

Demography and autonomy

Approximately 91 % of the population is Han Chinese. Although the proportion of Koreans constitutes 4% of the population of the province, almost a quarter include their autonomous district and autonomous Changbai County (the town Baishan ) ( 24.6 %) of the total area of Jilin Province. The proportion of Manchu is 4%, but their autonomous Yitong County ( Siping ) makes only 1.3% of the province surface. The proportion of the Mongols is 0.6 %, and its autonomous district of Front Gorlos ( Songyuan ) makes 2.7% of the province area, since it is significantly less populated.

Economy

In the provincial capital Changchun was in the 1950s with the help of the Soviet Union, the first automobile factory built, which the truck Jiefang type ( = liberation) with 95 hp produced over thirty years without any change was made. The first model change there was in 1987, the four- ton truck has been upgraded to five- ton truck with a more powerful engine. The importance of this work also wear Western corporations account: Volkswagen can here the Golf IV and Jetta assemble for Daimler- Chrysler various Mercedes models are assembled.

Since 1958 also the official car classic " Red Flag " was built ( Hongqi ).

Tourism

The 220,000 -acre nature reserve of Changbai Mountains, the largest protected area of China, located 250 km extends to the border with Korea. It was included in the international conservation program of UNESCO. Shimmer The rocks of the Changbai know what the name is derived ( always white). One of the peak is the 2,155 meter high Baitoushan Bald Mountain, an extinct volcano. At its peak spreads from the famous, 9.2 km ² Heaven Lake, a 300 -meter deep crater, which was created by a volcanic eruption in 1702 and was filled with water.

More

The Jilin Province was the first province of China in the women an Artificial insemination was allowed. This sparked heated discussions about the value of family, which occupies the first place for many Chinese.