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Yingtan Municipality, A prefecture-level city under Jiangxi Province , In Chinese [鹰潭市]

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Administrative Division Code : 360600;
Post Code : 335000;
Phone Area Code :0701
The Prefix of Motor Vehicle License Plate : 赣L
The Prefix of Citizen Identity Card Number: 360600
Area Coverage: 3554 square kilometers;
Population : 1,090,000 persons;
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Current Weather of Yingtan:
The adminitrative division form of Yingtan is Municipality, which is one of the four administrative divisional forms at the the second level of China local administrative division system .
Municipality is also referred to as a prefecture level city (地级市). Most of Chinese big cities belong to this variety.
A prefecture-level municipality is subject to the juridiction of a provincial government ,and directly controls some urban districts while overseeing some counties or smaller cities on behalf of the provincial government.
Thus it's normal to see a large City (a Municipality) have juridiction over some small cities in China.
Subdivisions Under the jurisdication of Yingtan Municipality
S/NFull NameIn Chinese In PinyinDivison type
1Yuehu District月湖区Yuehu QuDistrict
2Guixi City贵溪市Guixi ShiCity
3Yujiang County余江县Yujiang XianCounty
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A city in Jiangxi Province, Yingtan is located in the northeast of Jiangxi and is considered to “connect Jiangsu and Zhejiang on the east, border Fujian on the south, occupy the crucial position of the Boyanghu Lake”. It is an important transportation hinge and a burgeoning base of copper, energy sources and chemistry.





Yingtan is a unique tourist place with well protected ecology, beautiful environment and clean and unpolluted mountains and waters. The Dragon and Tiger Mountain about 16 kilometers away from the downtown was the cradle of Taoism in China and the famous mountain described in the starting page of Chinese classic work All Men Are Brothers and is honored as “No. 1 Mountain of China’s Taoism”. Shangqing Palace in the mountain is one of the Taoist palaces with the largest scale and longest history in China. The Dragon and Tiger Mountain is the national key place of interest, national scenic spot of 4 A rank, national geological park, national forest park with unique natural scenery and human scenery. The Taoism ancestor palace, Danxia physiognomy and the mystery of hanging coffin are the three world famous attractions for tourists home and abroad.

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