Brief introduction of Jilin city

Jilin is a famous ancient city in the northeast of China with a history of more than 300 years.

As early as the tenth year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (167 1), An Zhuhu, deputy commander of Ningguta, was ordered to lead more than 3,000 people of Manchu Eight Banners to build a city in Linhe, Jilin. After two years of construction, Jilin City was born in the 12th year of Kangxi (1673). At that time, Jilin City was erected as a city wall with pine poles, which was 8 feet high and had a city gate on the east, west and north sides. The circumference of the whole city is 7 Li, 180 steps. There is a moat outside the city wall. Offices, barracks, temples, shops, workshops, houses, etc. The city has been built. According to the terrain, Liangmihang Street, West Street, North Street and other streets have been built successively.

By the fiftieth year of Kangxi (17 1 1), there were about 50,000 residents in Jilin city.

In the seventh year of Qing Qianlong (1742), Jilin City was expanded for the first time. There are walls on the east, west and north of the soil. The perimeter of the city wall 145 1 is about 9.67 Li. The number of city gates has increased to five, namely, the West Gate, the Great North Gate, the Eight Humens, the Great East Gate and the Small East Gate. Streets have also begun to take shape, especially North Street and West Street, where there are many shops. In the forty-first year of Qianlong (1776), there were about 90,000 residents in Jilin City.

In the fifth year of Tongzhi (1866), Fu Minga of Jilin General and Fu Sun, vice governor of Jilin, took the lead in raising funds to expand Jilin City. After the expansion, the height of the earth wall is about one foot, and the wall extends more than 290 feet to the north, with a perimeter of 1794 feet, that is,1.66 Li. This expansion has increased to eight gates, namely Zhihemen, Deshengmen, Fusui Gate, Yingenmen (original West Gate), Donglaimen (original Small East Gate), Chaoyangmen (original Big East Gate), Bahumen and Arctic Gate (original Big North Gate). At that time, except Fusui Gate and Zhihe Gate, all the other six gates had towers.

In the 9th year of Guangxu (1883), Jilin General Xiyuan converted the earth wall into a blue brick wall. A crib was built on the city wall, more than one foot high and more than two feet high. The circumference of Jilin City was about 14 km, and the residents of Jilin City at that time had grown to more than 290,000. In the year of Xuantongyuan in Qing Dynasty (1909), the east of the city was turned into a Japanese commercial port, and a new door was opened between Donglaimen and Chaoyangmen, which was called the new door. At this time, the buildings in the east of the city began to increase.

In the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930), another door was opened between Chaoyangmen and Bakoumen, called Beixinmen. It was renamed Eight Humens and Eight Humens, and Yingenmen Linjiang Gate. From the years of the Republic of China to the early years of the Puppet Manchukuo, the old city walls were gradually demolished and the urban areas continued to expand.

After the birth of New China, the ancient city of Jilin with a history of more than 300 years was reborn. Jiangbei Industrial Zone, Hadawan Industrial Zone and Jiangnan New Town are connected with the old city, and the urban area has been continuously expanded from 24 square kilometers in the early days of liberation to 570 square kilometers. The population has increased from 220,000 to 654.38+400,000. Since the reform and opening up, urban construction has made rapid progress. Widen roads, add bridges, develop residential areas, and build square green spaces, followed by skyscrapers. Especially in recent years, due to the start of the city image construction project, Songjiang Middle Road reconstruction project, Century Square construction project, Jilin Avenue and Jiefang Road widening project have been completed one after another. Now Jilin has become a beautiful modern industrial city.

Jilin City is located in the Changbai Mountain range in the hinterland of Northeast China, on the Songhua River in the transition zone of Songnen Plain, surrounded by water on three sides and mountains on all sides. East longitude125 ÷ 40 ′ ~127 ÷ 56 ′, north latitude 42 ÷ 31′ ~ 44 ÷ 40 ′. It is adjacent to Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in the east, Changchun City and Siping City in the west, Heilongjiang Province in the north and Hunjiang City and Tonghua City in the south. The total area is 27 120 square kilometers. The urban area is 3,745 square kilometers, Yongji County is 2,624 square kilometers, shulan city is 4,600 square kilometers, panshi city is 3,960 square kilometers, jiaohe city is 6,050 square kilometers and huadian city is 6,250 square kilometers.

Geomorphological features: Jilin City has a situation of "welcoming Changbai from afar and surrounding Songhua". Due to the tectonic movement in different periods and the erosion, denudation and accumulation of rivers, the landform of Zhongshan mountain area-low mountain hilly area-canyon lake area-valley plain area has been formed, and the terrain has gradually decreased from southeast to northwest.

Zhongshan mountain area is located in the middle, east and southeast of Jilin area, which is the main forest area and specialty area of the city. There is Longgang Mountain in Changbai Mountain in the south, Fuerling in the remaining vein of Longgang Mountain in the south and Hulan Mountain in the northeast. There are Laoyeling in the east of Songhua Lake, Motianling, Nanlou Mountain and Zhaojiji Mountain in the west, all of which are Zhongshan Mountain Group. There are 1000 meters high peaks in mountainous areas, 1 10. The highest peak, Nanlou Mountain, is1404.8m above sea level.

Low mountain and hilly area, distributed in Jiaohe, Huadian, central shulan city and Yongji County. The mountain area is 300-400 meters above sea level, and a few peaks are 600-700 meters high, which is an early development zone. This forest has gradually declined. In addition to the urban area of Jilin City with an area of 1748 square kilometers, pastoral areas are important agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and industrial and mining areas in the province.

Xiahu District is located along the lake and from Fengman Power Station Dam to the upper reaches of Baiyin in Baishan Reservoir. It is a landform area formed after the completion of Fengman, Hongshi and Baishan cascade power stations, with beautiful environment and pleasant scenery. This is a promising comprehensive economic development zone of energy, characteristics, fishery and tourism, and also an important ecological economic zone to establish a good ecological environment.