Jingsha

I remember attending a reception in Beijing to promote investment in Jingsha City, Hubei Province. The first speaker was Jingsha’s Party Secretary; the second speaker was the Mayor.

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Plans were also announced to build a new rail link from Wuhan directly to the Three Gorges via Jingsha and Yichang.[…] The new Jingsha can be expected to grow rapidly, following the example of Xiangfan 200 kilometres to the north which was listed in 1992 with Wuhan among China’s top 54 cities (all had GDP exceeding ten billion renminbi annually).[…] For all the talk of cooperation, Wuhan and Shanghai remain competitors, while the new Jingsha and other medium-sized cities will seek to challenge the dominance of the giants.

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I unfolded a map of China and located the city of Jingzhou (in 1994, the two districts, Shashi and Jingzhou, were amalgamated into the city of Jingsha, and later renamed the city of Jingzhou), where my high school was located, right in the geographic center of China.

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A few years back, there were debates over whether the Yangtze might end up like the Yellow River. The answer should be clear by now. Jingsha^([sic – meaning Jinsha]) River, as the upper third of the Yangtze is called, saw an increase in silt discharge of 0.4 kilograms per cubic meter between 1982 and 1985.

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