Yangji Mountain National Nature Reserve

Yangji Mountain National Nature Reserve. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Located at the southern end of Guixi, a county-level city of Yingtan, East China's Jiangxi province, Yangji Mountain National Nature Reserve is part of the Wuyi Mountain Range.

It borders Yingtan's Zhangping township and Shangrao's Qianshan county to the east, Fujian's Guangze county to the south, Fuzhou's Zixi county to the west, and Yingtan's Wenfang town to the north.

Established in 1998, the reserve was upgraded to a national nature reserve in 2012.

The whole reserve is primarily composed of two independent mountains, Yangji Mountain and Tianhua Mountain. It covers an area of 10,946 hectares, 99.7 percent of which is covered by primitive vegetation.

Yangji Mountain, located in the southeast of the reserve, is the highest mountain of Yingtan, with an elevation of 1,540.9 meters.

It boasts a subtropical humid monsoon mountain climate in the reserve, where the annual average temperature is between 11.4 to 18.58 degrees Celsius, while the yearly average precipitation is between 1,870 to 2,191.3 millimeters.

The reserve is home to rare wild animals and plants like Chinese mergansers, Elliot's pheasants, tufted deer, and Chinese bretschneidera.

There are more than 30 species of amphibian animals in the reserve, accounting for 68.2 percent of the total in Jiangxi.