Jin River

The headwaters of the Jin River, a tributary of the Futun River, are navigable for small boats up to the foot of the Wuyi Mountains, despite the river’s rocky channel and many rapids; boats bring downstream the tea grown on the slopes of the mountains. Below Jianning, larger boats…

…are the headwaters—the Futun and Jin rivers, which flow from the mountain ranges to the west—and two tributaries that drain the major interior valley basin of the province, the Sha River (flowing from the southwest through Yong’an and Sanming) and the Jian River (flowing from the northern mountains along the…