HSIN RIVER

Chinese (Wade-Giles) Hsin Chiang, or (Pinyin) Xin Jiang, river, tributary of the Yangtze River system in northeastern Kiangsi province, China. The Hsin River has a length of 194 miles (312 km) and drains an area of about 6,500 square miles (16,800 square km). It rises along the northeastern border of the province and flows southwestward past Shang-jao city, a commercial centre producing paper and processing tea. The river continues generally westward to Ying-t'an, where it courses northwestward to empty into P'o-yang Lake, east of Nan-ch'ang. The lower and middle stretches of the river run through an important rice-growing area of China; tea and wheat are grown farther upstream.