Tsinan

Tsinan: see Jinan, China.

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Jinan

 or Chi-nan conventional Tsinan

City (pop., 2003 est.: 2,346,000), capital of Shandong province, eastern China. It dates to the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC) and earlier and has been an administrative centre since the 8th century BC. Nearby Mount Tai was one of China's greatest holy mountains; many Buddhist cave temples were built in the hills south of the city in the 4th–7th century AD. It was made the capital of Shandong under the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Opened to foreign commerce in 1904, it developed further after becoming a railroad junction in 1912. It is now a major administrative and industrial centre and Shandong's chief cultural centre, with agricultural, medical, and engineering colleges and a large university (1926).

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Jinan, Chinan, Tsinan

an industrial city in NE China, capital of Shandong province; probably over 3000 years old. Pop.: 2 654 000 (2005 est.)

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Tsinan 

a city in East China, on the Huang Ho. Capital of Shantung Province. Population, 1.1 million (1970). Tsinan is a rail and highway junction and a major transshipping point. The food-processing industry is represented by, for example, a flour mill, a vegetable-oil mill, a meat-packing plant, and an alcohol plant. The city also has a paper industry and a textile industry (including the manufacture of rugs). Tsinan is a major national center for the production of rubber goods, including rubber footwear. The city’s machine-building industry produces machine tools, locomotives, and equipment for the textile and food-processing industries; there is a plant that manufactures heavy trucks and a motor-vehicle repair plant. The city has chemical and petrochemical industries. A metallurgical plant is located in the city. Tsinan has a university and industrial, agricultural, and medical academies.