Lishui Nature · Lishui District, Nanjing, Jiangsu

How high the hills of Lishui rise, and how far its waters run

Hills, rivers, lakes and reservoirs, polders, dikes and sluices — each entry giving its elevation, length, area or capacity, and each figure with the document and year it comes from. Where an item has more than one official figure, all are shown rather than one chosen. With routes, annual festivals and surveys, in Chinese and English.

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Mountains and hills; rivers, lakes and reservoirs, polders and dikes; tour routes and festivals; landforms and drainage, ecology and protection. Categories are derived from an entry’s feature type or genre; they are a navigation and filtering device and do not change the entity type.

Mountains and Hillsshanqiu Individual peaks and connected uplands — Donglu, Huifeng, Fushan, Fangshan, Qiuhu, Xiheng and Wuxiang among them — each with its elevation and drainage basin. 8 entries Browse all Riversheliu Trunk and tributary rivers — the Yigan, Ergan, Sangan, Xinqiao, Lishui and Yunhe, and the Tiansheng Bridge River (Yanzhi River) — each with its length. 7 entries Browse all Lakes and Reservoirshuku Shijiu Lake and the six medium-sized reservoirs — Fangbian, Zhongshan, Wolong, Laoyaba, Yaojia and Zheshantou — each with its area or capacity, reservoirs also with a class. 7 entries Browse all Polders, Dikes and Sluicesweiqu Polders, embankments, sluices and flood-diversion channels — the Shijiu Lake dike, the Tiansheng Bridge Sluice, the Zhangxi polder channel — with their scale and function. 4 entries Browse all Tour Routesyouxian Officially recommended routes and self-guided routes with a definite start and end, naming the land and water they link and how to reach them. 5 entries Browse all Festivals and Experiencesjieshi Annual festivals and kinds of experience — plum blossom and strawberry festivals, the half marathon, camping and birdwatching — with their past editions and practical notes. 4 entries Browse all Landforms and Drainagegeju The lie of the land, the river system and its divides, the source of the Qinhuai, and how the three drainage basins are drawn. 5 entries Browse all Ecology and Protectionshengtai The protected-area system, ecological red lines, wetlands and migratory birds, and the record of ecological work. 3 entries Browse all

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Mountains, waters, visiting and surveys, each with its own pages. There is no timeline here: most natural features have no dateable point of origin, so the first navigation is the drainage basin instead.

Mountains The hills of Lishui, each entry giving its elevation and drainage basin. Every peak named in an official document has an entry; elevations and basins come from government documents and technical reports, and where no official document names the hill a figure belongs to, the entry says so rather than guessing. 8 entries Browse all Waters Rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and polders, dikes and sluices. Shijiu Lake and the six medium-sized reservoirs are all present, each with its area, length or capacity; where an item has more than one official figure, all are given with their source and year. 18 entries Browse all Visiting Officially recommended routes and the annual festivals. Each names the land and water it links; prices, opening hours and transport change from season to season, so no fixed figures are given — only the official channel and the date the information was checked. 9 entries Browse all Surveys Entries written here: the lie of the land and how the river system is divided, the accounts given for the source of the Qinhuai, and the protected-area system with the record of ecological work. Divergent official figures are set side by side. 8 entries Browse all

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Rivers Yanzhi River (Tianshengqiao River) A Ming canal linking the Qinhuai River with Shijiu Lake The Yanzhi River, also called the Tianshengqiao River, lies in Honglan Subdistrict. It is a canal cut after Zhu Yuanzhang made Nanjing his capital, to carry grain between Nanjing and the two Zhe, running north to the mouth of the Qinhuai and south to Honglan Wharf on Shijiu Lake, 7.5 km in all. It takes its name from Yanzhi Hill; during the cutting a natural rock stayed spanning the cliffs above the channel, and this is Tiansheng Bridge. The Tiansheng Bridge scenic area is a 4A tourist attraction, rated in 2019; in the provincial list of protected cultural sites the Yanzhi River and Tiansheng Bridge are one protected unit at two points. Canalgrain transportWater conservancy unchecked Long-form Lakes and Reservoirs Shijiu Lake The boundary lake in southern Lishui, its area given as 207.65 and 214.7 sq km Shijiu Lake is the boundary lake in the south of Lishui District and one of the district's three catchments. Its area is given as 207.65 sq km on the district government's geographical position page and 214.7 sq km in replies from the municipal government and the district water bureau, while the part within Lishui is given as 90.4, 91.2 or 87.7 sq km. A provincial wetland park was approved here in November 2019 with a planned area of 91.7 sq km; the provincial list of important wetlands gives 9140.71 ha; and a 2011 municipal schedule lists a Shijiu Lake scenic area at municipal level. LakesWetlandsProtected areas Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Long-form Tour route Tour Routes The Wuxiang Mountain forest trail The Huantianchi forest trail, from the main visitor centre by way of Tianchi to Wuxiang Temple, in three sections The Huantianchi forest trail at Wuxiang Mountain in Lishui runs inside the Wuxiang Mountain scenic area. It starts at the main visitor centre, passes Tianchi, and ends at Wuxiang Temple. It is in three sections, Ducheng Road, Caizi Road and the hundred-step stair. It follows the mountain's existing paths and disused firebreaks and is 6 km long (Jiangsu Provincial Forestry Bureau). A second figure from the scenic area's own website gives about 5.3 km and ends at Tianchi; the two are set side by side. Along the way are more than ten lakes, Tianchi and Wuxiang Lake among them, and the largest bamboo grove in the Nanjing area. This entry covers the trail only, not cycleways or camping grounds. LandscapeForestsScenic site Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Long-form Lakes and Reservoirs Laoyaba Reservoir A medium-sized reservoir in Baima Town and the source of the Xinqiao River, its registered water surface 157.40 ha, its catchment given as 17.5 and 58.11 sq km Laoyaba Reservoir lies in Baima Town, Lishui District. It is one of the district's six medium-sized reservoirs, its management unit is the Laoyaba Reservoir Management Office, and it is the source of the Xinqiao River, an inflow river of the Shijiu Lake system. Its total capacity of 1163 10,000 m³, usable capacity of 487 10,000 m³ and usable water level of 34.8 m come from Table 2 of Jiangsu Water Resources, 2022 no. 5. The Natural Resource Register of the Nanjing Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau, entered on 14 June 2024, records a water surface of 157.40 ha for the registered unit Laoyaba Reservoir. Its catchment is given as 17.5 sq km on the Nanjing Municipal People's Government portal, 14 November 2024, and as 58.11 sq km in Table 2 of Jiangsu Water Resources, 2022 no. 5. In 2024 Laoyaba Reservoir was listed among the national pilot projects for the modernised matrix of reservoir operation and management. ReservoirsDrinking water sourcesWater conservancy unchecked Long-form Survey Landforms and Drainage The changing face of Shijiu Lake The reclamation of the 1970s, two rounds of dike strengthening since 1999, and the protected status the lake has held since 2019 Shijiu Lake is the boundary lake between Lishui and Gaochun districts and Dangtu County in Anhui. This article sets out the changes in four periods that the sources support: reclamation of the lake shores in the 1970s cut the open water from 266.7 sq km to 207.6 sq km (Gaochun District wording, with only a rough date); strengthening of the lake dikes in 1999 to 2002 brought the flood standard to about a 1-in-20 to 1-in-40 year event; the 2014 dike improvement works gave the Lishui reach 34.73 km of dikes, a design flood level of 12.50 m and a 1-in-40 year standard; and in November 2019 a provincial wetland park was established (planned area 91.7 sq km), followed by listing in the Jiangsu provincial list of important wetlands (9140.71 ha). The four kinds of area figure mean different things, and this article sets them side by side without converting between them. LakesWetlandsProtected areas Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Long-form Survey Landforms and Drainage The climate of Lishui Five sets of climate figures from official and technical texts, with their differences and their uses set out Lishui has a subtropical monsoon climate, but its climate figures have no single district-wide basis. This article sets out the five sets found for this site: the District Government's Geographical Position page (mean annual temperature 16.4°C, relative humidity 76%, annual rainfall 1204.3 mm, annual sunshine 1980.0 hours), the High-Standard Farmland Construction Plan 2022-2025 (16.6°C, 1491.5 mm, 2205.6 hours), the Near-Term Implementation Plan of the Territorial Spatial Plan (15.5°C, 2146 hours, 1037 mm), the environmental impact report form for the Dongping Subdistrict sewer project (1037 mm, 15.5°C) and a study of the Fangshan small watershed (16.4°C, 1147.0 mm, 1969.0 hours, frost-free period 224 days). Annual rainfall runs from 1037 mm to 1491.5 mm and mean annual temperature from 15.5°C to 16.6°C; as no source states its period of record or its weather station, this article sets the figures side by side without averaging them or choosing between them. LandscapeSeasonal customs Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Long-form

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