The Founding And Development Of Jilin City

The Jilin city, also named Jiling or Jilin-Wula(near the river), lies in the ending parts of Changbai mountains. Its latitude is northern 42°31′～44°40′with having the longitude in eastern 125°40′～127°56′. It is of warm and semi-humid continental monsoon climateFive or six thousand years before ,there have humanbeing activitied here. Yu Zhou period, Jilin for Sushen; Han Dynasty for Xuan Tu County; Jin security guards when barbarians XiaoWei by EC Fuyu; Tang Dynasty for the Bohai ; Liao for dongjing Road; Ming Dynasty, Jilin City first for Nu er gan Dusi ,then for Wula . In the Qing Dynasty, in the face of Tsarist Russia repeatedly committing , the Qing Dynasty decided to beat Tsarist Russia , Jilin city was choosen to establish large shipyards, for the construction of ships, transporting army, navy training.Kangxi 12th year (1673) ,Jilin City was founded near the shipyard. Kangxi 15th year (1676),the capital of general Ning gu ta Was moved to Jilin City and Jilin city became the political, cultural, and economical centre of this region. It remained to be the centre more than 300 years until the central city transferred to Changchun city.In nearly three centuries, the population was gradually increasing, the dominant people, Man nation, was replaced by Han nation. Jilin City experienced three City expansion The city changed slowly into a inland city contrasting with its former military functions.Mainly manifested in the government functions, the development of industry and commerce, education, belief structure, entertainment and other areas. However, as she located in the border areas, the overall economic development lags behind, although with neighboring regions, the higher their level of development, But with relations within cities, there are still large gaps.It had also lost its advantage in the traffic with the construction of the railways. Jilin city became a secondary one after the capital of the city which is located at Changchun.