About Jinhua

Jinhua is a city with 2000-year-old history, and the birth place of Immortal Huang DaXian whom is believed in as the Holy Spirit by Hong Kong, Macao,and TaiWan compatriot. It links the vast inland interior and the coastal highly developed area of the Shanghai Economic Development Zone. Being the advantageous communications line, Jinhua is the central city of western Zhejiang, the communication center of Fujian, Zhejiang,Jiangxi ,Anhui four provinces and the traffic hub of Zhejiang province.
Jinhua lies in the central Zhejiang province. Mount Jinhua, also historically known as Mount Red Pines, is celebrated as a place where a Taoist monk called Red Pines of the Jin Dynasty became an immortal. At 515 meter-1320 meter above sea level, the area measures 80 square kilometers, including six sub-scenic zones such as Shuanglong (Double-Dragon) Cave, Huangdaxian, Mount Jianfeng, Dapantian, Cranes, and Youyou Park. The scenic zone is characterized by underground streams, karst caves, and a memorial temple for the Taoist. The state-level mountain resort is a huge attraction for leisure, sight seeing and holiday, and pilgrimages.

Jinhua is directly under the jurisdiction of the Province, its name comes from Jinhua Mountain in that area. Neighboring Taizhou in the east, Lishui in the south, Quzhou in the west, Shaoxing and Hangzhou in the north, it covers an area of 10,918 square kilometers, among which 40.8% is mountainous areas, 41.58% is highland and 17.62% is plains. By the end of 1997, there were 180340 hectares of farmland.

Jinhua is located in the eastern part of Jingqu Basin, the terrain tilts from the north and south to the middle. "Mountains in three directions and basins scattered with three rivers mixed" reflects the basic features of that area. There is Dapan and Huiji Mountain in the east and northeast, Xianxia Ling Mountain in the south, there is Longmen Mountain and Qianli Mountain in the north and northwest, among which 208 mountains are over 1000 meters. Mountains in the area is mostly between 500-1000 meter, which distributed in south and north side of the area. There are highlands with mild fluctuant scattered in the mountain area. The middle part of the city is situated in the eastern part of Jinqu Basin with Wuyi, Yongkang, Nanma , Pujiang and Duntou Basins decorated within. From the east of Weishan Town of Dongyang City to the west of Youbu Town of Lanxi City, it stretches out for over 100 km with extend of 10 km. Within those basins, there are low hills which altitude is between 50-250 meter and the relative height is less than 100 meter. In the bottom of the basin, there is usually low-lying plains. The upper reaches of Dongyang River flows from the east to west across Yiwu, joined by Wuyi River in Wucheng and then to Jinhua River. Jinhua River flows to the north and joined by Qujiang River in Lanxi and flows to Lan River. Lan River flows to the north to Xinanjiang City in Jiangjunyan.

The downtown area of Jinhua is situated in the meeting point of Dongyang River, Wuyi River and Jinhua River and covers an area of 301 square kilometers including 25 square kilometer of satellite towns. It belongs to the sub-tropical monsoon climate with distinct seasons and mild temperature and rich heat and adequate precipitation and with distinct dry and wet seasons. With relatively early spring and a short autumn, long and hot summer and complementary heat and sunshine winter, the basins have own diverse climate and frequent disastrous weather.

Climate

It belongs to the sub-tropical monsoon climate with distinct seasons and mild temperature and rich heat and adequate precipitation and with distinct dry and wet seasons. With relatively early spring and a short autumn, long and hot summer and complementary heat and sunshine winter, the basins have own diverse climate and frequent disastrous weather.

Living Cost

Cost of living in Jinhua is cheap compared to many other cities in China. The city is considered to be one of the famous and ancient cities in China.

125 US Dollars will be sufficient for a student life for a whole month in Jinhua city which will fulfill all the need of a student.

20 to 25 Chinese yuan will be sufficient for a complete day’s meals.

Anywhere you go around the city if you take a bus the maximum you have to spend is from 1 yuan to 2 yuan.

If you take a taxi the minimum charges will be 6 yuan upto 2 to 3 kilometers and will increase 0.50 yuan per kilometer.