Yushan County

Administration

Yushan has been a county for over 1,300 years. Administratively the county is part of the prefecture-level city Shangrao. The county administers 21 townships.

At present, Yushan County has 1 subdistrict, 11 towns and 6 townships.{{cite web |access-date = 2012-05-24}} ;1 subdistrict

• Fenglin (枫林街道)

;11 towns

• Bingxi (冰溪镇)
• Linhu (临湖镇)
• Bimu (必姆镇)
• Hengjie (横街镇)
• Wencheng (文成镇)
• Xiazhen (下镇镇)
• Yanrui (岩瑞镇)
• Shuangming (双明镇)
• Zihu (紫湖镇)
• Xianyan (仙岩镇)
• Zhangcun (樟村镇) ;6 townships
• Nanshan (南山乡)
• Huaiyu (怀玉乡)
• Xiatang (下塘乡)
• Siguqiao (四股桥乡)
• Liudu (六都乡)
• Sanqing (三清乡)

Climate

|Jan record high C = 26.0 |Jan record low C = -6.0 |Feb record high C = 28.4 |Feb record low C = -4.6 |Mar record high C = 34.2 |Mar record low C = -2.7 |Apr record high C = 34.9 |Apr record low C = 2.9 |May record high C = 36.3 |May record low C = 9.9 |Jun record high C = 37.4 |Jun record low C = 13.6 |Jul record high C = 40.9 |Jul record low C = 18.8 |Aug record high C = 41.0 |Aug record low C = 18.6 |Sep record high C = 39.1 |Sep record low C = 12.9 |Oct record high C = 37.5 |Oct record low C = 4.1 |Nov record high C = 31.8 |Nov record low C = -2.1 |Dec record high C = 24.5 |Dec record low C = -9.5

Economy

Over the last fifty years, the county has harnessed its eight major rivers for power. It has three large hydropower stations with installed capacity of about 1.2 megawatts.

The county is relatively a lagger in economic development. But it boasts affluent mining resources, like flagstones and limestones.

Transportation

Yushan is a stop on the Zhe-Gan Railway, leading from Shanghai, Hangzhou to Nanchang and further south to Guangzhou and Hong Kong. At the end of 2002, the county was also incorporated into the national network of roads with the construction of a highway to Shanghai. Its closest airport is one in Quzhou, which flies to various domestic destinations.

Sights

Every year, tens of thousands of domestic and foreign tourists flock to Yushan's picturesque Mount Sanqing (三清山), which has been officially designated as a National Scenic Area.

Huaiyu Mountains are also a tourist attraction. In the Song dynasty, the great neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi taught there. In Republican times, the area also hosted a guerrilla affiliated to the Chinese Communist Party, led by then legendary general Fang Zhimin.

References

References

1. link. [[China Meteorological Administration]]
2. "Quzhou Airport: Code as JUZ, Flights Schedule, Transport".