Jinjiang City () is a county-level city of QuanzhouMunicipality 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.
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... Read More