Jinjiang, Fujian

Jinjiang City () is a county-level city of Quanzhou Municipality in Fujian. It is located in the southeastern part of the province, on the right or south bank of the Jin River, across from Quanzhou's urban district of Fengze. Jinjiang city also borders the Taiwan Strait of the East China Sea to the south, and Quanzhou's other county-cities of Shishi and Nan'an to the east and west, respectively. It has an area of 721.7 square kilometers and a population of 1,024,331 as of 2003.

Administrative divisions

Jinjiang has 6 subdistricts and 13 towns:

Subdistricts

• Lingyuan (灵源街道)
• Luoshan (罗山街道)
• Meiling (梅岭街道)
• Qingyang (青阳街道)
• Xintang (新塘街道)
• Xiyuan (西园街道)

Towns

• Anhai (安海镇)
• Chendai (陈埭镇)
• Chidian (池店镇)
• Cizao (磁灶镇)
• Dongshi (东石镇)
• Jinjing (金井镇)
• Longhu (龙湖镇)
• Neikeng (内坑镇)
• Shenhu
• Xibin (西滨镇)
• Yinglin (英林镇)
• Yonghe (永和镇)
• Zimao (紫帽镇)

Demographics

Jinjiang is known for the large number of foreign-invested factories which operate there, especially clothing and name-brand footwear.Many migrant laborers come from around and even outside the province to commit themselves to year-long contracts.

Jinjiang people speak the Quanzhou variant of Minnan dialect which is largely intelligible to speakers of the Xiamen/Zhangzhou variant (spoken by most Taiwanese). As in many parts of China, most Jinjiang people can use Putonghua (Mandarin) to communicate...
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