Jilin Province of the P.R.C.
Abbreviation
JL
Population
27.28 million
Area
187400 sq Km
Location
North-Eastern China
GDP
RMB 166.96 billoin
Provincial Capital
Changchun
Per Capita GDP
RMB 6341
Seperate Planning City
None

 

 
Climate:

Marine; rainy season during southwest monsoon (June to August); cloudiness is persistent and extensive all year .

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Ethnic Groups:

There are 40 ethnic groups, including the Han, Korean, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, etc. .

 
Agriculture:

Jilin is one of the important commodity grain bases in China. It abounds with soybean, corn, sorghum, millet, rice, small red bean, wheat, tuber, sunflower seeds, beets and tobacco. It has been among the national top in terms of percapita, commercial grain proportion for many years. About 2.96 million hectares of prairies in the province's northwest make it an ideal place for animal husbandry production, a well-known pasture land for sheep in the country as well as a major production base of commercial cattle and fine wool sheep in North China.

 
Industry: Jilin Province has a very solid industrial base. Relatively perfect industry system has come into being. There are more than 14, 000 industrial enterprises now in Jilin and six dominant industries, which are engineering industry, petrochemical industry, pharmaceutical industry food industry, metallurgical and forestry industry. Jilin leads the country in its production of automobiles, railway cares, tractors, ferroalloy, carbonic products, timber, sugar, crude oil, vegetable oil and no-mineral products.