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Fujian
Province
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Location:
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Situated on
the southeast China coast, Fujian Province
is separated by a 180-km strait from
Taiwan, the largest island in China
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Area:
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121,400 sq
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Climate:
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Fujian has
a sub-tropical climate, warm and humid.
There is distinct difference in climate
between north and south, coastal and
inland regions, and valleys and mountains.
It has an annual temperature of 17¡ã£21¡ãC
and an annual precipitation of 1,100-2,000
mm, both increasing from northwest to
southeast. Typhoons occur frequently
from July to September. |
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provincial capital:
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Fuzhou |
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Population:
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34.71 millions
(March 2001) |
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Ethnic groups:
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Han, and the
She, Hui and Gaoshan ethinic groups. |
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Major Cities:
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Xiamen; Zhangzhou
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Agriculture:
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Fujian's food
grain includes mainly rice, sweet potatoes
and wheat, and cash crops mainly sugar-cane,
peanuts, rapeseed and tobacco. Fujian
is one of China's major sugar-cane and
tea growers. The Wuyi Mountain Area
is famous for its tea. Tangerines, Longans,
lichees, bananas, loquats and pineapples
are the major fruit of Fujian. Aquaculture
is developed along the coast. Tong'an
Conty is famous for its lancelets, a
rare species of fish, and Pingtan for
its laver, a sea vegetable. |
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Industry:
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Fujian is rich
in coal, iron, tungsten, copper, molybdenum,
lead, zinc and rare earth. Shoushan
is known for its stone carving, Fuzhou
for its bodiless lacquerware and Dehua
for its procelain. |
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