Jinxi County


Jinxi County is a county of Jiangxi in the People's Republic of China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou.
Jinxi is the hometown of Lu Xiangshan, a famous educator and thinker in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was highly honored in Chinese history as well as one of China's top ten thinkers. Jinxi has nurtured many famous figures, including Wei Su, a famous historian in the Yuan Dynasty, Gong Tingxian, a great medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty and Cai Shangxiang, an outstanding scholar in the Qing Dynasty. Zhou Jianping, the commander of the Red Tenth Army and one of the founders of Mingzhegan Revolution Base. It has boasted two zhuangyuan, three bangyan and 242 jinshi since Jinxi County was founded.
Jinxi is the core zone of Linchuan culture as well as a fundamental part of Gan culture. Jinxi County was founded in the fifth year of Chunhua of the Northern Song Dynasty. Renowned for its silver smelting site in the Tang Dynasty, the output of gold and silver in the ancient time and the golden streams running through the mountains, it was named the "golden stream." Some silver smelting relic sites and relevant inscriptions which were the earliest physically written record in ancient China's mining and metallurgy have still remained in the county. It used to be an important pottery and porcelain production base in the Song Dynasty, so a folk saying goes, "First Xiaopi Kiln, then Jingdezhen."

Administrative divisions

In the present, Jinxi County has 7 towns and 6 townships.
;7 towns
  • Xiugu
  • Huwan
  • Shuangtang
  • Heyuan
  • Heshi
  • Langju
  • Zuofang
;6 townships
  • Huangtong
  • Duiqiao
  • Lufang
  • Chenfangji
  • Liuli
  • Shimen

    Demographics

The population of the district was 605,100 as of 2010.

Climate