Introduction

Our location is the Hub of East China, one of the most charming cities in China Jiujiang City in Jiangxi Province is a cultural and historic city situated at the crossing of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Kowloon Railway. This two-thousand-year-old city is a noted town in ancient China, for years it served as a communication center along the middle reaches of the Three Kingdoms (220-280 AD). The city was a customs station in the third century and became a country town in 589 AD. From the 17th to the 19th centuries, it was an important center of the tea trade. In 1861 it was opened to foreign trade. Jiujiang now has one city, nine counties, four districts and Mount. Lushan Administration Bureau under its jurisdiction. In total the city covers an area of 18.8 thousand kilometers.

Take a fresh look at Jiujiang, it is an ideal place to live, work, and study! Visit us and you'll notice lots of exciting places in Jiujiang for work, study and play! Jiujiang is a lively city offering something for everyone -shopping from designer fashions to lively street markets, and cuisine from all over China. Jiujiang has been named one of the most charming cities in China in 2004 by CCTV.
Jiujiang City is located in the northern Jiangxi Province, on the southern bank of the juncture of the lower and middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Situated at the juncture of Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, and Anhui Provinces, and in the middle of the Beijing-Kowloon Railway. You can pretty much get anywhere by public transport, Jiujiang is the transport hub of East China. With student discounts, it is cheap and easy to travel by train or coach anywhere in China.

If you need a bit of fresh air, there are plenty of parks, lakes, mountains and green spaces, this is ideal for walking and mountain hiking. Jiujiang has many scenic spots with distinctive characteristics due to its long civilized history and beautiful, special, and rugged natural sites. Jiujiang boasts a famous mountain (Lushan Mountain), a great river (the Yangtze River), and a well-known Lake (Poyang Lake). It has more than four hundred tourist sites and one hundreds and twenty tourist spots available.
Lushan Mountain is the national key tourist spot and one of the “Forty Excellent Tourist Cities of China.” In 1996, Lushan Mountain was approved by the UNESCO as the only “World Cultural Landscape” of China and was recorded in World Heritage list. The world-renowned Bailudong (White Deer Cave) Academy in Lushan Mountain once enjoyed the reputation as the first Academy in China and was once the Leading Academy in the World. This advantageous location with its’ profound history and culture provides Jiujiang University with a rich cultural atmosphere.

The Yangtze River, which is the third longest in the world and the first longest in China, originates from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and becomes broad wide in Jiujiang.
Poyang Lake is situated in the west of Jiangxi Province, on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and between Jiujiang and Nanchang. It has the Yangtze River to the north and is protected by Lushan Mountain to the west.

The whole territory of JiuJiang extends 270 kilometers long, and is 140 kilometers wide from north to south. It covers 18,800 square kilometers in total, accounting for 11.3% of the total area of Jiangxi Province boasting 4.6 million people. The population of the urban area is 510,000. The Climatic Features of JiuJiang are subtropical humid monsoon climate, drizzles in spring; and rainstorms in summer; autumn droughts and cold periods in winter. The average temperature is 17.5 Celsius Degree in spring, 28.2 Celsius Degree in summer, 20 Celsius Degree in autumn and 6.3 Celsius Degree in winter.

Living in Jiujiang

Security:

• Lock the door when leaving the room. Do not keep large amounts of cash in the dorm or flats, put them in the bank and keep valuable things in a safe place.
• Though Jiujiang is a beautiful city, there are some people on the street who are interested in your pocket. When you go to the city center, make sure that you don’t carry large sum of cash with you, only take changes if possible, and leave your passport/ID card in a safe place.
• Do not swim in unsupervised locations such as ponds or lakes, which have no lifesaving facilities.
• Never lend your room key to strangers, try not to lend or borrow key from your classmates & friends.
• Never tell anybody else your bank account passwords, even he/she is your close friends.

Application fee
50 US Dollars per person. (Payable on application)
d. Food, medical care, teaching materials and traveling will all be paid by the overseas students themselves.