Jiansanjiang

Jiansanjiang (Chinese: 建三江; pinyin: Jiànsānjiāng; lit. 'built on the Sanjiang Plain') is an administrative area of 230,000 in eastern Heilongjiang province, China. It was established as a nongken farm.

Jiansanjiang 建三江管理局局直
Jiansanjiang train station
Nickname:  Sanjiang (Chinese: 三江)
Jiansanjiang Location in Heilongjiang
Coordinates: 47.255°N 132.626°E / 47.255; 132.626
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Heilongjiang
Prefecture-level city	Jiamusi
County-level city	Fujin
Population
• Total	230,000
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Climate	Dwb

Jiansanjiang
Chinese	建三江管理局局直[1]
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiànsānjiāng Guǎnlǐjú júzhí

Agriculture

Agricultural vehicles on display at a museum in Jiansanjiang

Being a former agricultural reclamation land (Chinese: 农垦; pinyin: nóngkěn), Jiansanjiang has a rich history of agriculture, and is known for having areas of chernozemic soil.^[2] The city is discussed in detail in academic papers on Agriculture in China: notably China Agricultural University has an experimental station looking at rice varieties in the city.^[3]

Jiansanjiang is known as China's green rice city,^[4] and its Honghe farm (Chinese: 洪河农场; lit. 'grand river farm') was the first modernised farm in the whole of China, making use of agricultural drones and other technologies.^[5]

Transportation

Jiansanjiang train station

Jiansanjiang Shidi Airport was opened in October 2017.^[6] By road, Jiansanjiang connects to the G1011 via the S11 Jianji Expressway.

Jiansanjiang also connects to Harbin (via Jiamusi) and Fuyuan by rail.

Science

The asteroid 207723 Jiansanjiang is named after the city.^[5]