Baishan Overview

Baishan city lies in the west of naturally beautiful Changbai Mountain of the southeast of province of Jilin, east longitude is 126 point 7 degrees to 128 point 18 degrees, north latitude is 41 point 21 degrees to 42 point 48 degrees. The east and prolonging in the side the Koreans' autonomous prefecture adjoin; the west boarded by Tonghua city; Adjoin in the north of Jilin; Face each other through Yalu River in the south and Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Things stand 180 apart, norths and south stand 163 apart, national boundaries is 454 -km-long, 17485 sq. km. of territory. The area of urban area is 1388 sq. km... It have Han, Chao, Man, Hui, Meng with nationality for 37 piece, population is 1,330,000 total. Have the long white the Koreans' autonomous county under its command, Fusong county, Jingyu county, Jiangyuan county, Linjiang city and Badaojiang district. The continental monsoon climate of city owned north temperate place of Baishan, is the coldest area of province of Jilin. The diurnal amplitude is great in spring; summer is short, warm much rain; Nice and cool, much sunny weather in autumn; winter is long, dry and cold. 4.6 ?of average temperature of the whole year in the urban area, the highest temperature is 36.5 ?of historical extreme value in summer, the historical extreme value of minimum temperature - 42.2 ? in winter, annual average precipitation is 883.4 millimeters, sunshine time is 2259 hours, 140 days of frost-free period. White Mountain is the forest Zone of Changbai Mountain of the vast sea of woods. Well known Changbai Mountain, classify as the United Nations "people and biosphere" catch net and world keep place naturally with the approval of UNESCO 1980. There is area of 60 in Baishan in the nature reserve of Changbai Mountain. The area of forest land of the whole city is 14,761 sq. km., forest coverage rate is up to 83%, the storage capacity of the living standing tree is 182 million cubic meters, and it is first the whole territory forest tourist zone in China. Realize resources are changed; it is pillar industries of the white mountain that the forest is processed.
White Mountains are the excellent and famous and precious resources area of economic animals and plants of the product. There are more than 350 kinds of wild animals in the intra-area, more than 2300 kinds of wild plants, more than 1500 kinds of economic plants. The mountain edible wild herbs spur the rise of the pollution-free food industry; the herbal material is the gifted local product here. Comfort the loose county, pacify the space county, eight river district , face river city named as "township that Chinese join" , "Chinese township of American ginseng" , "township of frog , forest of China," "China red township of red-spotted stonecrop" separately. White Mountain is the ginseng main producing region of the whole country. Ginseng, forest frog oil, P.koraiensis kernel is listed in the regional products protection domain of country of origin by the country.
White Mountain is the abundant mineral resources area. Has already verified 46 kinds of mineral deposit, reserves of diatomaceous earth is 196 million tons, accounts for 50 of the whole country; Coal reserves occupy Jilin save the first place, eight river district, river source county, pacify space county enter the whole country 100 focal points, produce the coal county. Metal, nonmetal ore reserves such as the iron, gold, magnesium, kaolinite stone, etc. are very considerable too. Mineral products, energy are basic industries on the White Mountain.