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Jilin city lies in the middle and southern part in Jilin province. It
is the base of chemist and power industry in China. It is 27,120 square
kilometers in area. The population is 4.17 million. Jilin is in the
mountain area of Changbai Mountain, and also in the plain area of Songliao
Plain. The topography here mainly is hilly lands and lower mountains. It
is the semi-humid monsoon climate in the temperate zone. The average
temperature is 4.5 degree Celsius and the average precipitation is 750mm.
The mineral resources are coal, gold, iron, sulphur, iron, nickel, black
crystal, silver and asbestos. Jilin abounds in forests and hydroelectric
power. Major industries include chemical industry, electric power,
metallurgy, paper-making, electron and machine. Among them, chemical
industry is the most important one. The chemical fertilizer, dyestuff and
calcium are well-known in the whole country. Alley iron, carbon, minicars,
machine-making paper and chemical fibre are in the important places in
China. In agriculture, the output of wheat, corn, rice, Chinese sorghum
and beet is very high. Especially, Jilin is the main product area of beet.
The railway and highway systems here are both convenient. The planes here
can take you to Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenyang and many other
cities.
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Airport
Although Jilin is an outlying province in the northeastern part of
China (Dongbei), it is still fairly easy to access by plane. The easiest
point to enter and leave the province is by Changchun, the capital, which
is linked with major cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai by
daily flights and others including Qingdao, Xiamen and Chengdu. Also, if
you can arrange visas in advance, a trip to Vladivostok is also possible.
In winter, throngs of people opt to skip Changchun and fly straight to
Jilin City to enjoy the Ice Lantern Festival.
Railway station
Jilin boasts a cobweb of rail links, with an aggregate length of over
4,000km. An excess of 80 trains shuttle to and from Changchun. Even today,
a considerable proportion of the travelers go to Jilin on a sleeper train
from such faraway places as Beijing, Shanghai and even Xi'an! If you are
based in Jilin City, it is also convenient to travel within Jilin (and
without to cities such as Harbin and Shengyang).
Bus station
To do justice to road transport, it is the least advanced of the three.
However, backwardness does not mean impossibility--you will still find
that inter-province transport is reliable and the quality of
Beijing-Changchun Expressway is among the best of its kind in China. The
area of Changbaishan, which houses the province's most popular sight, The
Heavenly Lake (Tianchi), is one area that can only be reached by road. See
the Changbaishan Transportation Overview for details.
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