County-level divisions 6 Licence plates 晋E ISO 3166-2 CN-14-05 Local time Sunday 3:01 AM Population 2.279 million (2010) Area code 0356 | Time zone China Standard (UTC+8) Administrative division code 140500 Area 9,490 km² Postal code 48000 | |
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Country People's Republic of China Weather 7°C, Wind N at 8 km/h, 90% Humidity Points of interest Lingchuan Wangmangling Scenic Ar, House of the Huangch, Qinglian Temple, Guoyucun, Jincheng Museum | ||
Jincheng shanxi
Jincheng (simplified Chinese: 晋城; traditional Chinese: 晉城; pinyin: Jìnchéng) is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Shanxi province of north China. It is an industrial city in an area where coal mining is an important industry. The entire prefecture has a population of 2.2 million.
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Map of Jincheng, Shanxi, China
The presence of such a large coal industry has given Jincheng a reputation for air pollution and in recent years the local government has invested heavily to promote better air quality in the city. This includes tree-planting, establishing and maintaining large parks and ecological reserves, shutting down or relocating some of the worst-polluting factories, and the generalized use of coalbed methane which burns much cleaner than coal.
Geography
Jincheng is located in the southeast corner of Shanxi province. The prefecture-level city covens an area of 9,490-square-kilometers. It has 188,920 hectares of cultivated land.
Economy
Jincheng has considerable mineral resources, notably coal. Coal-beds account for more than 56% of the total area. Most of this is anthracite, a very valuable type of coal with few impurities. The anthracite in Jincheng makes up more than a quarter of the total in China and half of the total for Shanxi province. Jincheng also has a large coal mine methane field which was discovered in Qinshui county in 2001.
Both anthracite and coal mine methane were mainly produced by Jincheng Anthracite Mining Group.
Transportation
Jincheng does not have a commercial airport, although the nearby cities of Zhengzhou, Changzhi and Luoyang do.