- Fujian Province

Population: 27.5 million

Urban population: 12 million

Nationalities: Han, Hui, She, Miao, Manchu, and Gaoshan.

Area: 120,000 square kilometers

Climatic features: Subtropical, humid, monsoonal climate; spring droughts; typhoons and rainstorms from summer to autumn.

Average temperature: 5 - 13 C. in January, 25 - 30 C. in July

Annual Average Rainfall: 800 - 1,900 mm; low precipitation in the coastal lowlands; high in the northwestern mountains; the most rainfall occurs in May and June.

Physical features: Graduated descent from the northwest to the southeaster seaboard; 90 percent mountains and hills; long and narrow plains along the coast; the East China Sea lies toward the northeast, the South China Sea toward the south, and Taiwan Province southeast across the Taiwan Strait.

Mountains: Wuyi, Jiufeng, Daiyun, Daimao, and Boping Mountains.

Rivers: The Minjiang River is the major waterway, with a drainage that covers about half of the province.

Products: Rice, wheat, sweet potatoes, peanuts, sugar cane, rapeseed, soybeans, sesame, tea, longans, oranges, lychees, pineapples, pomelos, loquats, bananas, lotus seeds; dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms, silver fungus; jute, tobacco, rosin, medicinal herbs; tea oil, tung oil, Chinese tallow tree; laver, lancelet, and other sea products; timber,; iron, coal, molybdenum, manganese, salt, graphite.

Administrative divisions: 11 cities and 59 counties

Capital: Fuzhou

Neighboring Areas: Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Taiwan Provinces

Major Cities: Fuzhou, Xiamen, Nanping, Sanming, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou

Tourist Attractions: Gulangyu Island, called the 'garden on the sea', in Xiamen; Wuyishan, a scenic spot in Chong'an County.

Comments: Xiamen Special Economic Zone is one of the four established in early 1980's, the other three being in Guangdong Province.

Source: Atlas of the Peoples Republic of China, Beijing, 1989.

Last modified: Tuesday, December 16, 2003