Jixi 鸡西Jīxī

About Jixi

Jixi is a coal-mining city on the southern edge of the Sanjiang Plain, but its sights lie east, towards the Russian border. Lake Khanka (Xingkai) is a huge border lake, mostly in Russia, with a sandy Chinese shore, and the Hutou Scenic Area and Fortress Museum stands on the Ussuri River at a Japanese army fortress taken by Soviet forces in August 1945. Jixi is known for its ethnic Korean community, whose cold noodles are the local dish.

What to eat in Jixi

• Jixi cold noodles (鸡西冷面)

Listed sites in Jixi

9 sites in Jixi are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.

• Hutou Scenic Area and Fortress Museum 虎头旅游景区 5A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A scenic area on the Ussuri River at Hutou, built around the remains of the Hutou fortress, one of a chain of fortifications that the Japanese Kwantung Army built along the north-eastern frontier in the 1930s and that Soviet forces attacked in August 1945.
• Beidahuang Calligraphy Garden, Mishan 北大荒书法长廊 4A scenic area · on the map
  A calligraphy garden beside the General's Lake reservoir north of Mishan, laid out over about 16 hectares as a garden of corridors, platforms and stone tablets.
• Dangbi Lake Khanka Resort 当壁镇兴凯湖旅游度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
  A state-farm lakeside resort district on the western end of Lake Khanka, beside the Mishan border port, with a sandy shore, a lakeside deer park, a Russian-style park, a picking garden and a water park.
• Dongfanghong Wetland, Hulin 东方红湿地 4A scenic area · on the map
  A lake and wetland tourist area in the Dongfanghong forestry area of Hulin, run from the forestry bureau and rated 4A.
• Qilinshan Scenic Area, Jidong 麒麟山景区 4A scenic area · on the map
  Rock peaks and a lake in Xingnong town, Jidong county, named for a ridge whose north and south peaks are said to look like the head and tail of a qilin, the mythical beast.
• Tiexi Forest Park, Mishan 铁西森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A forest, lake and wetland area in the hills west of Mishan, covering about 80 square kilometres by the Jixi city government's figure.
• Xinkailiu, Lake Khanka 兴凯湖新开流景区 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A lakeside scenic area on the sand ridge between Big and Small Lake Khanka, with a viewing platform, a bird-watching platform, a boat landing and a long sandy beach.
• Guokuishan Mountain Fort 锅盔山山城遗址 National heritage site · on the map
  The remains of a hill fort on the summit of Guokuishan in Yong'an town, Jidong county, mainly of the Bohai-kingdom period (the national list gives the Tang era).
• Jixi Japanese Crimes Exhibition Hall and Didao Mass Grave 侵华日军鸡西罪证陈列馆 National heritage site · on the map
  A museum in Didao district recording the 1933–45 Japanese occupation of the Jixi coalfield and the miners who died under it.

On the map

Open Jixi on the illustrated map to see its outline, its places and listed sites together, and to add them to a trip.

Learn more

• Wikipedia
• Official website
• Wikipedia (Chinese)