Jiaxing Travel Guide - Brief Information on Jiaxing

Jiaxing in Chinese Pinyin:  Jiā xīng
Jiaxing in Chinese Writing:    

Jiaxing in Chinese Pronunciation:    Click the button to learn how to say Jiaxingin Mandarin Chinese. Or you can download it to your hand device to play it to a conductor when buying a train ticket to Jiaxing.

Jiaxing Overview:  Jiaxing is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. Lying on the Grand Canal of China, Jiaxing borders Hangzhou to the southwest, Huzhou to the west, Shanghai to the northeast, and the province of Jiangsu to the north.

Map of Jiaxing: Here is a rough map of Jiaxing showing where Jiaxing is located on the map of China.

 

Jiaxing Climate & Weather:  Located in the south edge in the north subtropical zone, belong to the monsoon area of east Asia. Here makes a clear distinction between the four seasons, the sunshine is abundant, the rainfall is plentiful, it is temperate in climate and moist, spring and autumn is relatively short, summer of winter is relatively long, the average temperature of the whole year is about 15.7 degrees. About 230 days of frost-free period of the whole year, annual sunshine is more than 2000 hours, annual average rainfall is 1100 millimetres. Coastline is 121 -km-long, among them it build water front of port reach 67 kilometers, easily accessible, the hinterland is broad, the geographical position is superior.

Language in Jiaxing:  People speak Wu dialect in Xiaxing.

Jiaxing Transportation:

By Air:  The Pingtan airport of Jiaxing, the flight flies to every large tourist city of the whole country.

By Train:  Jiaxing is situated at the juncture of the Hangzhou-Shanghai Railway. Jiaxing will be a station on the proposed Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train Line.

By Bus:  Jiaxing is on the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway and 320 National Highway. In the mean time, Beijing-Hangzhou Great Canal runs across Jiaxing.

Jiaxing Food:  The cooking culture of Jiaxing is of long standing and well established, have strong South characteristics, there are Hangzhou concurrently dish and Shanghai characteristic of dish; The snack of the South have some flavors either, for instance south lake crab, five sweet-smelling rooms of Zongzi, gentle tiger's stewed duck with bean sauce, etc., must taste. Five square rooms of Zongzi shops on the way (the crossing of Zhongshan ) are far-famed to lie while founding the state.

Major Jiaxing Tourism Resources:  A typical Chinese riverine town, Jiaxing is famous for its picturesque scene neryand rich historical sites. The Qiantang River Tidal Bore at Haining, the North-South Lake at Haiyan, the ancient town of Xitang at Jiashan a nd the Jiulongshan (Nine-Dragon Mountains) Beach at Pinghu constitute Jiaxing's major tourist resources which are characterized by the scenes of wave, river and sea and by the numerous historical sites and cultural relics. The city has a provincial-level scenic resort, a municipal-level scenic resort, a state-level forest park and two provincial-level towns of historical and cultural interest. Within the city there are 23 star-rated hotels and 28 domestic and international travel agencies which may provide tourists with excellent services.

Tourist Attractions: The Qiantang River Tidal Bore at Haining, the North-South Lake at Haiyan, the ancient town of Xitang at Jiashan and the Jiulongshan (Nine-Dragon Mountains) Beach at Pinghu constitute.

Travel Agencies:  There are 1 licensed tour operators which can offer travel services to international travelers. Please refer to all these Jiaxing travel agencies.