Yushan (Chinese: 玉山; pinyin: Yùshān; lit. 'Jade Mountain') is a county in the northeast of Jiangxi province, China. The county is Jiangxi's gateway to bordering Zhejiang province. It covers 1,731 km2 (668 sq mi) and the population now reaches 560,000.
The climate is temperate there with abundant rainfall in the monsoon season, and has clearly differentiated summers and winters.
Administration
Yushan has been a county for over 1,300 years. Administratively the county is part of the prefecture-level cityShangrao. The county administers 21 townships.
At present, Yushan County has 1 subdistrict, 11 towns and 6 townships.[1]
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.
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.
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.
