Fengcheng () is a

county-level city A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...

in northern

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

province, People's Republic of China, under the administration of Yichun, located along China National Highway 105 and on the eastern (right) bank of the

Gan River The Gan River (, Gan: Kōm-kong) runs north through the western part of Jiangxi before flowing into Lake Poyang and thus the Yangtze River. The Xiang-Gan uplands separate it from the Xiang River of neighboring eastern Hunan. Two similarly sized ...

about south of

Nanchang Nanchang (, ; ) is the capital of Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. Located in the north-central part of the province and in the hinterland of Poyang Lake Plain, it is bounded on the west by the Jiuling Mountains, and on the east ...

, the provincial capital. The literal translation of the name is "Abundance City", due to its importance as a major commercial hub for agricultural products. There are 26 towns and 7 sub-districts comprising a total area of and its population is around 1,370,000. The 2005 GDP was more than 9.1 billion RMB. In 210 AD, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was founded as Jianyi County ().

Administrative divisions

In the present,Fengcheng City has 5 subdistricts, 20 towns and 7 townships. ;5 subdistricts ;20 towns ;7 townships

Notable people

* Hu Xiaomei (Chinese: 胡晓梅), radio personality and former host of the show At Night You're Not Lonely (Chinese: 夜空不寂寞)

Climate

References

External links

Fengcheng Web (Chinese)
County-level divisions of Jiangxi Cities in Jiangxi {{Jiangxi-geo-stub