Jixi

Jixi 鸡西市
Prefecture-level city
a trunk road in Jiguan District
Jixi (red) in Heilongjiang (orange)
Jixi Location of the city centre in Heilongjiang
Coordinates: 45°18′N 130°58′E / 45.300°N 130.967°E / 45.300; 130.967Coordinates: 45°18′N 130°58′E / 45.300°N 130.967°E / 45.300; 130.967
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Heilongjiang
County-level divisions	6 districts 2 county-level cities 1 county
Township divisions	459
Incorporated (town)	September 1, 1941
Incorporated (city)	March 7, 1957
Municipal seat	Jiguan District
Government
• Type	Prefecture-level city
• Mayor	Zhu Deyi (朱德义)
• CPC Jixi Secretary	Xu Zhaojun (许兆君)
Area
• Prefecture-level city	22,488.47 km2 (8,682.85 sq mi)
• Urban	2,208.5 km2 (852.7 sq mi)
• Metro	899.1 km2 (347.1 sq mi)
Elevation	230 m (750 ft)
Population (2010 census)
• Prefecture-level city	1,862,165
• Density	83/km2 (210/sq mi)
• Urban	862,959
• Urban density	390/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
• Metro	652,855
• Metro density	730/km2 (1,900/sq mi)
• Major nationalities	Han - 95% Korean - 3% Manchu - 2%
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	158100
Area code(s)	0467
Administrative division code	230300
License Plate Prefix	黑G
ISO 3166-2	CN-23-03
Climate	Dwb
Website	www.jixi.gov.cn

Jixi
"Jixi", as written in Chinese
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	鸡西
Traditional Chinese	鷄西
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jīxī
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᡤᡳᡥᡳ
Russian name
Russian	Цзиси

Jixi (Chinese: 鸡西; pinyin: Jīxī) is a city in southeastern Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China. At the 2010 census, 1,862,165 people resided within its administrative area of 22,488.47 square kilometres (8,682.85 sq mi) and 757,647 in its built-up (or metro) area made up of 3 out of 6 urban districts (including Jiguan, Hengshan and Chengzihe). Jixi is on the Muling River about 30 km (19 mi) from the border with Russia's Primorsky Krai and 120 km (75 mi) from Khanka Lake. The mayor of Jixi is Zhu Deyi (朱德义) since July 2009. The area is one of the important coal mining bases in China. A crater on asteroid 253 Mathilde was named after the city.

Jixi was ruled by the Jurchen and Goguryeo people. By the Shang dynasty, dwellers here had begun to communicate with people in the Central Plain. It was in the Han dynasty that primitive agriculture in this region had made great progress. During the Tang dynasty, Jixi was under the control of the Balhae. As the Manchus conquered the territories occupied by the Ming dynasty in 1644, the basin of the Amur River was blocked in order to protect the Manchu people's place of origin. In this period, the population of the Jixi region experienced a sharp decrease. In 1662, the Kangxi Emperor ordered the general of Ninguta to dominate the territory. Since a large number of people engaged in reclaiming wasteland and collecting ginseng, Jixi and the whole Ussuri River basin gradually became the base for medicinal materials.