Jiansanjiang

Jiansanjiang
建三江镇

Jiansanjiang train station
Nickname(s): Sanjiang (Chinese: 三江)
Motto:
China's green rice city
(Chinese: 中国绿色米都)
The first reclamation area to greet the sun
(Chinese: 最早迎接太阳的垦区)
Jiansanjiang

Location in Heilongjiang

Coordinates: 47°15′18″N 132°37′34″E / 47.255°N 132.626°E / 47.255; 132.626Coordinates: 47°15′18″N 132°37′34″E / 47.255°N 132.626°E / 47.255; 132.626
Country People's Republic of China
Province Heilongjiang
Prefecture-level city Jiamusi
Population
  Total 230,000
Time zone China Standard (UTC+8)
Climate Dwb

Jiansanjiang (Chinese: 建三江; pinyin: Jiànsānjiāng; literally: "built on the Sanjiang Plain") is a town-level city of 230,000 in eastern Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. Established as a nongken sub-bureau level city, it became a town-level city in July 2014.[1]

Agriculture

Agricultural vehicles on display at a museum in Jiansanjiang

Being a former agricultural reclamation land (Chinese: 农垦; pinyin: nóngkěn), Jiansanjiang has a rich history of agriculture, and is known for having areas of chernozemic soil.[2] The city is discussed in detail in academic papers on Agriculture in China: notably China Agricultural University has an experimental station looking at rice varieties in the city.[3]

Jiansanjiang is known as China's green rice city,[4] and it's Honghe farm (Chinese: 洪河农场; literally: "grand river farm") was the first modernised farm in the whole of China, making use of agricultural drones and other technologies.[5]

Transportation

Jiansanjiang train station

Jiansanjiang Airport has been under construction since 2013.[6] By road, Jiansanjiang connects to the G1011 via the S11 Jianji Expressway.

Jiansanjiang also connects to Harbin (via Jiamusi) and Fuyuan by rail.

Science

The asteroid 207723 Jiansanjiang is named after the city.[5]

References

  1. "新型城镇化试点启动:人口10万以上建制镇设市". Sina.com.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  2. 赵松乔 (1983). 黑龙江省及其西部毗邻地区的自然地帶与土地类型. 科学出版社. p. 78.
  3. "Estimating rice nitrogen status using active canopy sensor crop circle 430 in Northeast China". IEEE.
  4. 李经谋 (2009-06-01). 2009中国粮食市场发展报告. 中国财政经济出版社. ISBN 978-7-5095-1584-6.
  5. 1 2 "207723 Jiansanjiang (2007 RC148)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  6. 新建黑龙江建三江机场工程获国务院批准 (in Chinese). CAAC. 2013-09-18. Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
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