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Jiujiang is the fourth largest port on the Yangtze River [3] [4] and was one of the first five cities that were opened to foreign trade along the Yangtze River following the implementation of Deng Xiaoping's Opening-Up Policy. It is Jiangxi's only international trade port city.
China has 34 major ports and more than 2000 minor ports. The former are mostly sea ports (except for ports such as Shanghai, Nanjing and Jiujiang along the Yangtze and Guangzhou in the Pearl River delta) opening up to the Yellow Sea (Bo Hai), Taiwan Strait, Pearl River and South China Sea while the latter comprise ports that lie along the major and minor rivers of China. [1]
Near the northern port city of Jiujiang lies the well-known resort area of Mount Lu. Also near the city is the Donglin Temple , an important Buddhist temple in china. Near the small city of Yingtan is the resort area of Longhushan , which purports to be the birthplace of Taoism and hence has great symbolic value to Taoists.
After China's defeat in the Second Opium War, China and Britain signed the Treaty of Tientsin.At the beginning of the eleventh year of Xianfeng (1861), the British Counsellor, Harry Parkes, went to the new port on the Yangtse River by naval vessel according to the treaty to investigate the situation and select the site of concession to be opened.
Treaty ports (Chinese: 商埠; Japanese: 条約港) were the port cities in China and Japan that were opened to foreign trade mainly by the unequal treaties forced upon them by Western powers, as well as cities in Korea opened up similarly by the Qing dynasty of China (before the First Sino-Japanese War) and the Empire of Japan.
Jiujiang Town (Chinese: 九江; pinyin: Jiǔjiāng; Jyutping: gau 2 gong 1; lit. 'Nine Rivers') is a town in Nanhai District , Foshan , Guangdong , Southern China. It covers an area of 94.75 square kilometres (36.58 sq mi) with a registered population of 99,600 and a migrant population of 55,000.
In 2016, the Jiujiang people's government decided to repair four buildings left from the concession and transform them into a cultural and historical block, called Jiujiang 1858. [6] The block is located on Binjiang Road. The four buildings are as follows: Former Taiwan Bank of Japan; Former Japanese Consulate
In February 2013, Feng Jing, then deputy secretary of the Jiujiang Municipal Party Committee, led a Jiujiang City Supporting Army delegation to visit the ship. On 31 July 2015, the Jiujiang Civil Affairs Bureau staff and the Municipal Shuangyou Office visited the officers and soldiers of the ship in Fujian on the eve of the August, 1st Army Day.