Jiangmen, China

Jiangmen prefecture (yellow) and Jiangmen city (red) within Guangdong

Jiangmen (江門) (Pengjiang) is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong province in southern China with a population of about 3.8 million.

History

The port of Jiangmen opened to western trade in 1902. One legacy of this period is a historic waterfront district lined with buildings in the treaty port style. The city has an ongoing renewal project which has resulted in the restoration of many of these buildings.

A renovated building along Chang Di Middle road in the waterfront district.

Jiangmen was later established as a city in 1951, and then became a prefectural city consisting of the four cities over which it has administrative jurisdiction today.

Administration

Jiangmen has jurisdiction over:

• three urban districts:
  • Pengjiang District (Jiangmen City)
  • Jianghai District
  • Xinhui
• four cities at county level:
  • Taishan
  • Kaiping
  • Enping
  • Heshan.

Geography

Jiangmen city has an area of 9,260 km². The city is located on the lower reaches of the Xijiang river, in the west of the Pearl River Delta in the south middle of Guangdong Province. It faces the South China Sea in the south and is 100 kilometers away from Guangzhou and Zhuhai by highway.

Its land area is about 10,000 square km, one quarter the size of Pearl River Delta.

The climate is subtropical with monsoon. Annual average temperature: 21.8 C.

Economy

Jiangmen Port is the second largest river port in Guangdong province.

Miscellaneous

Jiangmen is one of the main places of origin of overseas Chinese, with about 3.6 million originating from there.

Transportation

• Chu Kong Passenger Transport (CKS) connects Jiangmen to Hong Kong (95 nautical miles) with high speed ferry services which take about 2.5 hours, one way.