Jinjang

Jinjang, also called J-Town, is a township and Chinese new village in the Kepong constituency of north-western Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It has two parts, Jinjang Utara in the north and Jinjang Selatan in the south. The modern town was established under the British Briggs Plan during the Malayan Emergency, which moved the rural ethnic Chinese population into more controlled settlements. Jinjang was the largest of the new villages on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, with about 13,000 residents on 445 hectares, nearly twice the size of the other new villages combined. From the 1960s it had a reputation for gangsterism, and the criminal Botak Chin was said to have been active there. A 1973 dengue epidemic that caused 969 reported cases and 54 deaths was traced to Jinjang. One origin story for the name is a pig brought by a Chinese merchant in the nineteenth century; another is a mispronunciation of the Chinese Zeng Guang. The Jinjang and Sri Delima stations of the MRT Putrajaya Line serve it, open since 16 June 2022.