Jiamusi

Jiamusi 佳木斯市
Prefecture-level city
Jiamusi (red) in Heilongjiang (orange)
Jiamusi Location of the city centre in Heilongjiang
Coordinates: 46°48′N 130°19′E / 46.800°N 130.317°E / 46.800; 130.317
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Heilongjiang
County-level divisions	10
Government
• Type	Prefecture-level city
• Mayor	Sun Zhe (孙喆)
• CPC Municipal Committee Secretary	Wang Zhaoli (王兆力)
Area
• Prefecture-level city	31,528 km2 (12,173 sq mi)
• Urban	882.5 km2 (340.7 sq mi)
• Metro	882.5 km2 (340.7 sq mi)
Elevation	83 m (271 ft)
Population (2010 census)
• Prefecture-level city	2,552,097
• Density	81/km2 (210/sq mi)
• Urban	881,711
• Urban density	1,000/km2 (2,600/sq mi)
• Metro	881,711
• Metro density	1,000/km2 (2,600/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	154000
Area code(s)	0454
Licence plates	黑D
ISO 3166-2	cn-23-08
Climate	Dwa
Website	jms.gov.cn

Jiamusi
"Jiamusi", as written in Chinese
Chinese name
Chinese	佳木斯
Postal	Kiamusze
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiāmùsī
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᡤᡳᠶᠠᠮᡠᠰᡳ
Russian name
Russian	Цзямусы

Jiamusi (Manchu: Chinese: ; pinyin: Jiāmùsī; formerly Kiamusze) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. Located along the middle and lower reaches of the Songhua River, it faces Russia's Khabarovsk Krai across the Ussuri River and the Amur River. In 2007 Jiamusi had a GDP of RMB 34.1 billion with a 14.3% growth rate. Its population was 2,552,097 at the 2010 census whom 881,711 lived in the built up area made of 4 urban districts.

In 1720, Jiamusi was first named Giyamusi (甲母克寺噶珊，嘉木寺) during the Kangxi period by the Nanai people. The word Giyamusi originally means Inn in Manchu Language. Because of the harsh climate and short growing season, the region of today's Jiamusi City was largely uncultivated .

Since the Qing government opened Manchuria for farming in order to prevent the conquest of the area by Russia, Jiamusi developed as a small trading post under the name Dongxing (東興鎮) since 1888. When Han Chinese and Manchu settlers began to move into the area, Jiamusi became the seat of a county administration, under the name Huachuan in 1910. However,the county seat was moved to Haoli (Hegang), which is about 30 miles to the north, after several destructive floods. After Xinhai Revolution, as the Han Chinese went on moving in, the population of Jiamusi rose very rapidly. Jiamusi continued to grow as a commercial center. As Jiamusi has become the largest harbor along the lower reaches of Songhua River, a road system was constructed in order to provide convenient transport linking Jiamusi to several other important strongholds in Northeastern China including Harbin and Nancha.