Jingdezhen | City Business Card

13:03, July 11, 2018 Source: National Human Geography of China
 

Millennium Ancient Town

Jingdezhen has a long history and splendid culture. It was once called one of the four famous towns in ancient China together with Foshan in Guangdong, Hankou in Hubei, and Zhuxian Town in Henan. It is also one of the first batch of twenty-four famous historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council. "Xinping began to smelt pottery in the Han Dynasty". Jingdezhen flourished and flourished because of porcelain. The millennium kiln fire has refined Jingdezhen's prosperity for more than a thousand years, and also cast Jingdezhen's profound cultural heritage.

 

World Capital of Porcelain

Jingdezhen's millennium kiln fire has refined its status as the "world porcelain capital". Over the centuries, Jingdezhen porcelain has not only become the imperial treasure of Chinese official kilns, but also the most influential trade goods and cultural symbols in China. The unique charm of Jingdezhen porcelain has a wide impact on the world. Jingdezhen has gradually become the center and source of the global porcelain industry and ceramic trade, becoming a veritable "world porcelain capital".

 

Ecological homestead

Jingdezhen is located in the transition zone between Huangshan Mountain, Huaiyu Mountain and Poyang Lake Plain. As the "Jiangxi sample" of beautiful China, Jingdezhen has unique natural advantages: vertical and horizontal water network, dense forests, urban green coverage rate of 42.8%, the city's forest coverage rate of 65.73%, and was rated as "National Ecological Garden City". By creating a beautiful ecological home, Jingdezhen has a more beautiful city and better ecology, and the beautiful rural charm is infiltrating people's hearts.

 

Famous Tourist City

As a millennium old town and the world's porcelain capital, Jingdezhen has unique culture, rich resources and a famous brand. Ceramics are the name card of Chinese culture and the medium of world exchange. Jingdezhen takes ceramics as the main line, links history and reality, combines culture and tourism, and builds a city of dialogue with the world. As an excellent tourism city and national garden city in China, Jingdezhen has become one of the most attractive cultural tourism cities in China with its unique tourism resources.

(Editor in charge: Liu Jiangnan (intern), Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei)