Jiangshan City

Jiangshan is a county-level city located in Quzhou prefecture-level city, in the southwest of Zhejiang Province, China, bordering Jiangxi province to the west. Located about 250 kilometers southwest of Hangzhou, the provincial capital, it is the only county-level city in Quzhou. In 1999, Jiangshan's population stood at 563,196. The city is named aptly: Jiang means river and Shan means mountain; a river runs through the city and scenic Mt. Jianglang sits on its border.USA Today described Jiangshan as a "fairly prosperous city in one of China's most developed provinces".The Jiangshanian Age of the Cambrian Period of geological time is named for Jiangshan.