(2002 est. pop. 44.7 million). The southeastern China province of Jiangxi (Chiang-hsi, Kiangsi) covers an area of 166,600 square kilometers and borders on Hunan in the west, Hubei and Anhui in the north, Zhejiang and Fujian in the east, and Guangdong...

Jiangxi (help·info) (Chinese: 江西; pinyin: Jiāngxī; Wade-Giles: Chiang-hsi; Postal map spelling: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the People's Republic of China, spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas...

In August last year, it was announced in Beijing that China's State Council had approved the establishment of three new nonferrous metal corporations as part of the programme to reform the country's nonferrous metals sector, and that the State Nonferrous Metal Industry Bureau...

Jiangxi is a land-locked province located in eastern China. In 1915 output in the province, a traditional tea-growing area in China, was 16,500 tons, a figure only surpassed in 1987. By 1949 tea production had plummeted to only 2,145 tons. By 1958 output...

Disgruntled residents blocked railway tracks in southern China for almost six hours to protest a government redistricting plan that they fear could reduce social welfare benefits, state media said Thursday.A crowd descended on a railway station in Guixi in the Jiangxi province shortly before noon...

Landslides and flooding unleashed by heavy rains have killed at least 66 people in China and left nearly 600,000 homeless, a state news agency reported Monday.The highest death toll was in southeastern Guangdong province, where 18 people were killed and four were missing since the...