Jinxi

Jinxi County is a county of Jiangxi province in the People's Republic of China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou.

Jinxi is the hometown of Lu Xiangshan, a famous educator and thinker in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was highly honored in Chinese history as well as one of China's top ten thinkers. Jinxi has nurtured many famous figures, including Wei Su, a famous historian in the Yuan Dynasty, Gong Tingxian, a great medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty and Cai Shangxiang, an outstanding scholar in the Qing Dynasty. Zhou Jianping, the commander of the Red Tenth Army and one of the founders of Mingzhegan Revolution Base, also came from Jinxi. It has boasted two zhuangyuan, three bangyan and 242 jinshi since Jinxi County was founded.