( The word " Kaolin " came from " Gaoling " or " Kaoling ", a village located in Ehu Town, Fuliang County, Jingdezhen City.

Jingdezhen belonged to Fuliang County for most of its history ( particularly when it was Changnan Town ).

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Jingdezhen was named one of four famous towns in Chinese history, along with Foshan ( Guangdong Province ), Hankou ( Hubei Province ) and Zhuxianzhen ( Henan Province ).

Jingdezhen has a four-season, monsoon-influenced, humid subtropical climate ( Köppen Cfa ), with somewhat brief, cool and damp winters, and long, very hot and humid summers.

* Changjiang District ( 昌江区 ), Jingdezhen, Jiangxi

* Jingdezhen ( 景德镇市 ), prefecture-level city of Jiangxi

File: Blue and white vase 1271 1368 Jingdezhen unearthed in Jiangxi Province. jpg | Blue and white vase ( 1271-1368 ), Jingdezhen, unearthed in Jiangxi Province.

It is in this period that the Longquan kilns declined, to be eventually replaced in popularity and ceramic production by the kilns of Jingdezhen, in neighboring Jiangxi province .< ref > Vainker, Shelaugh.

Jingdezhen is one of Chinese Historical and Cultural Cities, and was named one outstanding civilization & health city of Jiangxi Province, one tourist city of China by the end of 2007.

Usually when a town is upgraded to a city, the designation of " city " replaces that of " town ", but Jingdezhen retained its name to honor its history.

Jingdezhen is situated in the north-east of Jiangxi Province of China and neighbours Anhui ; the city center area is located in the north-east of the Poyang Lake Plain.

However, now the administrative hierarchy is inverted ; Fuliang County now is part of Jingdezhen City.

At present, Jingdezhen is divided into 1 county, 1 county city, and two districts.

* Changjiang District is one of the two districts of Jingdezhen, comprising six towns and townships with a total population of 170, 229 in 2007.

* Leping is a county-level city governed by Jingdezhen.

The late Guo Moruo, a senior official who was also a famous historian and scholar of PRC wrote a poem that says ( in translation ): " China is well known in the world for its porcelain, and Jingdezhen is the most well-known centre, with the highest quality porcelain in China ".

Most Jingdezhen porcelain is valued by collectors of antique porcelain throughout the world.

Jingdezhen is not only a major city, but is also a important industrial and commercial base in north-eastern Jiangxi.

Jingdezhen Ceramics is a joint venture with a French company and is most famous of Jingdezhen's ceramic companies.

Jingdezhen Refrigeration Compressor Company is well known in China for its non-Eph refrigeration compressor.

Early Chinese blue and white porcelain, manufactured circa 1335, that is about the Yuan dynasty period Jingdezhen.

From the main Huangshan City Railway Station in Tunxi, direct train service is available to Nanjing, Shanghai, Bengbu, Huaibei, Qingdao and Beijing among other cities the north, and points to the south including Jingdezhen, Yingtan, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Kunming.

Most china pots comes from the city of Jingdezhen in China's Jiangxi province.

During the period of the People's Republic of China it became a provincial city but retained the Jingdezhen name.

* Jingdezhen city, China ( 1997 )

There are some cities and counties between Jiangxi and Anhui Province around Jingdezhen.

File: Ming plate 15th century Jingdezhen kilns Jiangxi. jpg | Ming plate with grape design, 15th century, Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi.

The main production center was in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province.

Jingdezhen, under a variety of names, has been central to porcelain production in China since at least the early Han Dynasty.

There, he shook hands with the general secretary of the Communist Party of China Hu Jintao and exchanged presents with him ; Soong gave Hu a work of glass art from Liuli Gongfang, and received a piece of Jingdezhen pottery from Hu.

The Fonthill vase, made in Jingdezhen | Jingdezhen, China but adorned with metallic mounts in Europe, was the earliest piece of Chinese porcelain documented to reach Europe, in 1338.

Jingdezhen was named one of top 24 national historical and cultural cities of the People's Republic of China on February 28, 1982.

he subsequently moved to Jingdezhen, China where he makes large porcelain vessels.

* Jingdezhen, China

John, Duke of Berry was the owner of the Fonthill vase, made in Jingdezhen | Jingdezhen, China, the earliest piece of Chinese porcelain documented to reach Europe, in 1338.

Among the many subjects to which he turned his attention were the native industries of China, producing the Histoire et fabrication de la porcelaine chinoise 景德鎮陶錄 Jingdezhen Taolu.

In the early 14th century mass-production of fine, translucent, blue and white porcelain started at Jingdezhen, sometimes called the porcelain capital of China.

The wares were made, glazed and fired at Jingdezhen but decorated with enamels at Canton ( Guangzhou ) in southern China prior to export by sea through that port.

Left item: A Northern Song qingbai-ware vase with a transparent blue-toned ceramic glaze, from Jingdezhen, 11th century ; Center item: A Northern or Southern Song qingbai-ware bowl with incised Nelumbo nucifera | lotus decorations, a metal rim, and a transparent blue-toned glaze, from Jingdezhen, 12th or 13th century ; Right item: A Southern Song scale model | miniature model of a granary with removable top lid and doorway, qingbai porcelain with transparent blue-toned glaze, Jingdezhen, 13th century.

Currently ties exist with two universities: America's University of the Incarnate Word and China's Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute.

According to media reports, a blue and white porcelain jar produced in Jingdezhen during the Yuan Dynasty was auctioned for the equivalent of RMB 230, 000, 000 yuan in London, UK on July 12, 2005.