Zhenjiang, influenced by southern monsoon, is located in north sub-tropical zone with four distinctive seasons. Zhenjiang enjoys well-coordinated temperature, sunshine and rainfall: its annual average air temperature is 15.4℃; Annual sunshine time 2,057.2 hours; annual precipitation 1,072.8 mm., and 238 days of the year are frost-free.
Zhenjiang has four pillar industries, viz, chemicals, papermaking, building materials and aluminum. The number of foreign-funded enterprises (Sino-foreign Equity Joint Venture, Sino-foreign Contractual Joint Venture, and Wholly Foreign-Funded Enterprise) totals over 2,000. The contractual foreign investment has reached 54.09 billion USD and the utilized investment totals 27.77 USD, among which more than 70 projects each earn over 10 million USD. Many notable world famous enterprises have invested and established companies in Zhenjiang, such as Total Co. of France, ITT and Cargill of the USA, Klockner-Moeller and SIEMENS of Germany, IWAI and MITSUBISHI of Japan, Tsksid of Italy, and National Power Group of Belgium.
Zhenjiang has an abundance of historic heritage sites due to its well-established culture and arts. In 1986, the State Council listed Zhenjiang as one of the State’s Historical and Cultural Cities. Over the past few years, Zhenjiang has made great achievements in sanitation, cultural, and educational undertakings.

Zhenjiang is seated at the converging point of two Golden Waterways in China (the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal), boasting enchanting landscape of mountains and waters, which endows Zhenjiang with the fame of “ City of Mountains and Forests”. The city owns numerous historic heritage sites, among which 1,500-year-old Jinshan Temple, 1,400-year-old Dinghui Temple in Mt. Jiao, 1,500-year-old Longchang Temple in Mt. Baohua, and 2,000-year-old Taoist Temple in Mt. Mao. These are all important and significant Buddhist or Taoist temples. The fine works of many master calligraphers and famous scholars living in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties are preserved in the Stele Museum in Mt. Jiao. These works are greatly admired by the fellow calligraphers and calligraphy-lovers in China and abroad. The stone sculptures in front of the Southern Dynasties Period’s mausoleums date back to 1,700 years ago. The rare stone sculptures found here are exquisitely carved and well preserved. Zhenjiang’s Art Museum consists of a group of British-style buildings that were used by British Consulate-General. The Museum has a collection of 30,000 cultural treasures. The emperors of Song, Qi, Liang (dynasties during the Southern Dynasties Period), the well-known Prime Minister Li Deyu of the Tang Dynasty, and the celebrities Su Shi, Mi Fu, Xin Qiji of the Song Dynasty all had strong relations with Zhenjiang. Many popular historic stories and folklore were set in Zhenjiang: Sun Quan and Liu Bei forming an alliance to resist Cao Chao; Madame White Snake flooding Mount Jin; Yue Fei and Han Shizhong resisting Jin Dynasty.
Many other famous people in history also had connections to Zhenjiang. Italian explorer Marco Polo, Japanese painter Sessyu, and American writer Pearl S. Buck respectively lived and worked in Zhenjiang for many years of their lives, and they all had a deep affection for the city. The city and its characteristics can all be found in these individuals’ respective art and work.
In the city of Zhenjiang, there are five public libraries possessing 1,202,000 volumes, six galleries, one museum, 87 theaters and cinemas, as well as a number of recreational sites including Workers’ Cultural Palace, Youth Palace and Children’s Palace. The city has seven radio stations, five TV stations, and two cable TV stations. The TV stations broadcast throughout all of Zhenjiang, and 85% of the area in Zhenjiang is linked to the Internet.
A basic health and wellness network has been established in Zhenjiang and it is based on its towns and townships. Over 80% of the citizens are covered by health insurance, either by the rural area cooperative medical care or other types of medical insurance. The city has 827 medical institutions, including 27 hospitals.
Zhenjiang has instituted The Nine-Year Compulsory Education System. There are 134 high schools, 24 vocational middle schools (including technical schools) and three higher learning institutions (one of which is a National Key University). Zhenjiang employs 11,100 professional and technical employees, all of whom have varied qualifications and specialties. The city has 160 various types of scientific research institutes. One of the national level research institutions is The Institute for Silkworm & Sericulture under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science.
Currently, Zhenjiang has successively signed the International Sister Cities Agreements with Tsusi and Kurasikisi in Japan, Tempe in the USA, Lac-Megantic in Canada, Izmit in Turkey, Londrina in Brazil, and Iksan in Republic of Korea. Meanwhile, Zhenjiang maintains friendly and cooperative ties with Mannheim in Germany, Coquimbo in Chile, Namur in Belgium, and Betrosan in Romania.