Jingshan belongs to a county-level city in Hubei Province and is managed by Jingmen City.
Jingshan City is located in the transition zone from the hilly area in central Hubei to Jianghan Plain, and the terrain is inclined from northwest to southeast, which can be roughly divided into four types: low mountains, hills, hills and plains. It belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone, with green mountains and green waters and beautiful natural scenery, and the forest coverage rate of the city is 44.5%.
There are abundant natural resources, and nonmetallic minerals have high industrial exploitation value; The soils are mainly paddy soil, fluvo-aquic soil, yellow brown soil, lime soil and purple soil. Natural disasters have always occurred in many types and frequently, especially drought, followed by floods.
The city covers an area of 3,52 square kilometers (including 173 square kilometers of Qujialing Management Area and 75 square kilometers of Taizishan Forest Farm), accounting for about 1.78% of the total area of Hubei Province. Jingshan City has a long history, rich humanities, beautiful mountains and rivers, rich products and convenient transportation, and is known as "Emerald in Central Hubei, Back Garden of Wuhan".
Climate characteristics
Jingshan belongs to the northern subtropical monsoon climate zone, with four distinct seasons, warm in spring and hot in summer, cool in autumn and cold in winter. Sufficient sunshine, abundant heat, occasional chilling injury, abundant rainfall, but uneven distribution, frequent droughts and floods, and large annual climate difference. The annual average temperature is 16.3℃, the extreme maximum temperature is 4.3℃, and the extreme minimum temperature is-6.2℃.
The temperature difference between mountains and plains is obvious. The frost-free period is 223-243 days, and the annual average total solar radiation is 18 kcal/cm2-11 kcal/cm2. The total sunshine hours are 197.5 hours, and the sunshine percentage is 46%. The sunshine hours are low, slightly more in hills, slightly less in plains, more in summer and less in winter.
the annual average precipitation is 1179mm, and the precipitation in summer accounts for 41%-45% of the whole year, 7%-8% in winter, 28%-32% in spring and 18%-2% in autumn.
above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jingshan City