Ganzhou

Ganzhou

China
Wade-Giles romanization  Kan-chou , conventional  Kanchow 

      city, southern Jiangxi (Kiangsi) sheng (province), southeastern China. It is located on the Gan River and is a natural route centre at the confluence of the various river systems that branch off from the north-south route to Nanchang, the provincial capital.

      The city was first settled in Han (Han dynasty) times (206 BCE–220 CE) and became a county seat in the 3rd century CE. In 589, under the Sui dynasty (581–618), it became the seat of Qianzhou prefecture, the name being changed to Ganzhou (for the river on which it stands) in the late 12th century; it was called Ganxian during the Republican period (1911–49). In the 18th and 19th centuries, when all foreign trade was restricted to Guangzhou (Canton) (Canton), it became an important centre on the route from Guangzhou to Nanjing in Jiangsu province and to the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) valley, particularly for the tea trade. In the 20th century the construction of the Hankou-Guangzhou railway transferred the mainstream of the north-south trade to Hunan province, and Ganzhou has, to some degree, suffered a decline. Before World War II, Ganzhou was a large regional centre of commerce but little more.

      Since 1949 Ganzhou has remained a centre for the collection and distribution of goods for the surrounding areas of Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian (Fukien), and Hunan provinces. There are four trunk highway lines running to Nanchang and to neighbouring provinces. In addition, Ganzhou is the starting point for navigating the Gan River and therefore a busy dock for land and water transport. The Beijing-Kowloon (Hong Kong) rail line, opened in the late 1990s, runs across Jiangxi province, passing through Ganzhou. There are also scheduled flights between Ganzhou and Guangzhou. In addition, there are rich deposits of tungsten and tin, along with the considerable timber and water resources in the area, and Ganzhou has developed profitable metallurgical and papermaking industries. Pop. (2002 est.) 319,673.

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