Jiyuan

Jiyuan 济源市 Tsiyuan
County-level & Sub-prefectural city
Location of Jiyuan City jurisdiction in Henan
Jiyuan Location in China
Coordinates: 35°04′01″N 112°36′07″E / 35.067°N 112.602°E / 35.067; 112.602
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Henan
Area [1]
• Total	1,965 km2 (759 sq mi)
Population  (2019)[2]
• Total	733,700
• Density	370/km2 (970/sq mi)
GDP[3][4]
• Total	CN¥ 53.9 billion US$ 8.1 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 72,722 US$ 11,099
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal Code	454650
Area code	0391
Major Nationalities	Han
Township-level divisions	16
License plate prefixes	豫U
Website	jiyuan.gov.cn

Jiyuan (simplified Chinese: 济源; traditional Chinese: 濟源; pinyin: Jìyuán) is a sub-prefecture-level city in northwestern Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders the prefecture-level cities of Jiaozuo and Luoyang to the east and southwest respectively, as well as the province of Shanxi to the north.

The sub-prefecture-level city of Jiyuan administers 5 subdistrict and 11 towns.^[5] Jiyuan is named after the Ji river whose source is said to be a spring located on the west of the city.

Subdistricts

Towns

• A famous Chinese mythology The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains may come from this area. Mountains mentioned in this myth are Taihang and Wangwu.

Jiyuan was a county belonging to Jiaozuo City in the past, then it was divided from the city. The former Ji River—one of the ancient "Four Rivers", alongside the Yangtze, Huai, and Yellow Rivers—originated around Jiyuan, which was the source of its name, Chinese for "Source of the Ji". (Today, the Ji has been entirely subsumed by the Yellow River, which shifted to the bed of the Ji during its massive 1852 flood.)^[6] According to the latest archaeological findings, as early as around 10,000 years ago, precisely at the end of the Paleolithic Period and the beginning of the Neolithic Period, people have lived here. It used to be the capital of the Xia Dynasty and was well known for its wealth between the Period of Warring States and Han Dynasty.

In Shang dynasty it was a Fang state - Ya (亞方).

There are many crops grown in Jiyuan, such as wheat, peanut, cotton, sweet potato, maize and other crops.

• Houma–Yueshan Railway
• Jiaozuo–Liuzhou Railway

• Government website of Jiyuan (available in Chinese only)

• Pletcher, Kenneth; et al., eds. (2011), "The Major Cities of Northern China", The Geography of China: Sacred and Historic Places, Understanding China, New York: Britannica Educational Publishing, pp. 151–182, ISBN 9781615301348.