Jincheng

Jincheng is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Shanxi province, China, bordering Henan province to the south and southeast. It covers 9,490 square kilometres and administers six counties, county-level cities and districts: Chengqu, Zezhou, Gaoping, Yangcheng, Lingchuan and Qinshui. The city is an industrial hub built on coal; anthracite beds cover more than half its area and its reserves are over a quarter of China's total, while a coal mine methane field was found in Qinshui county in 2001. It also hosts a large Foxconn manufacturing campus. Archaeological sites show people living here more than 20,000 years ago, and it was raised to a prefecture-level city in May 1985. The population of the whole city is estimated at 2.2 million.