Jiaxing

Related Category: Chinese and Mongolian Political Geography

(jyä´shĭng´) or Kashing(kä´shĭng´), city (1994 est. pop. 227,600), N Zhejiang prov., SE China, at the junction of the Grand Canal, the Huangpu River, and the Hangzhou-Shanghai RR. An important marketing center for rice and silk, it has textile mills, food-processing establishments, and cement plants. It also produces most of China's cigarette paper. The name sometimes appears as Chia-hsing.