(1)外文名称: Fujian Province
    (2)中文名称: 福建省
    (3)内容:

                        Fujian Province
    Brief Introduction
    Situated on the southeast China coast, Fujian Province is
separated by a 180-km strait from Taiwan, the largest island in China.With a 3,324-km coastline, it has many ports, the biggest
being Fuzhou and Xiamen which are open to foreign trade and investment.The provincial capital is Fuzhou, a busy port, and 149 nautical miles to the east is Keelung, a major port on the northern tip of Taiwan Island. The province covers 121,400 sq km and has a population of 31.50 million, composed of people of the Han, and the She, Hui and Gaoshan ethinic groups.
    Climate
    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°－21°C and an annual precipitation of 1,100-2,000 mm, both increasing from northwest to southeast. Typhoons occur frequently from July to September.
    Topography
    Fujian has the highest elevation among the coastal provinces, with mountains and hills making up 90% of its total land mass. The general outline of its topography is a staircase descending from the northwest to the southeast seaboard. Its principal mountains run in a northeast-southwest direction. The Wuyi Mountains straddle the Fujian-Jiangxi border in the west. Most of the ranges in its central part run parallel with each other, including the Jiufeng, Daiyun and Bopingling mountains. There are long, narrow plains along the coast.Its rugged, 3,300-kilometer-long coastline has many harbors and offshore islands, the better-known being Pingtan, xiamen, Dongshan,
Jinmen and Mazu.
    Fujian's rivers flow short distances -- each with its own outlet
to the sea -- through the mountains where there are treacherous gorges
and rapids. Among its numerous rivers, the better-known are the
Mingjiang, Jiulong, Jingjiang and Tingjiang rivers. The Mingjiang river,
the largest of them all, drains half of the province's land.

    Agriculture
    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.

    Industry
    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.