Yichun City is located in the northwest of Jiangxi Province, with east longitude 1 13 degrees 54 minutes to16 degrees 27 minutes and north latitude 27 degrees 33 minutes to 29 degrees 06 minutes. Jiujiang in the north, Nanchang and Fuzhou in the east, Xinyu and Ji 'an in the south, Pingxiang and Hunan Province in the west. The city is about 222.75km long from east to west, and174km wide from north to south, with a total area of18669km2. By the end of 2004, the total population was 5.304 million, of which the non-agricultural population was 654.38+289 million.