Jixi

Jixi is a city in southeastern Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China. Jixi City is located in the southeast of Heilongjiang Province, sharing a boundary line of 631 kilometers with Russia in the east and southeast. Its city proper is seated at the west foot of Jiguan Mountain. Thousands years ago, this area was inhabited by ancestors of the Manchu. They fishing and hunting for life. By the Shang Dynasty (16th - 11th century BC), dwellers here had began to communicated with people in Central Plain. It was in the Han Dynasty (206-220) that primitive agriculture in this region had made a great progress. The city is surrounded by mountains in northern, western and eastern sides with the Musuo River flows through the city southwest to northeast, forming a spacious hoof-shaped basin. Low mountainous and hilly areas constitute the main landform of the city, together with plains and valleys along the rivers and lakes.

Tourist sites in Jixi City itself include Jixi Museum in the west end of the city, and Huayan Temple which almost faces the museum across Wenhua Road. Within roughly an hour's drive is the Qi Lin Shan scenic area. Khanka Lake is a boundary lake with its northern part belonging to China and southern part belonging to Russia. It was formed by the sinking of the earth's crust caused by eruption of a volcano. Except long and chilly winter, the lake favorable for visiting at the rest time