Yongxin County

Yongxin County 永新县 Yungsin
County
Location of Yongxin County (red) within Ji'an City (gold) and Jiangxi
Coordinates: 26°57′N 114°14′E / 26.950°N 114.233°E / 26.950; 114.233
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Jiangxi
Prefecture-level city	Ji'an
Founded in	204 CE（东汉建安九年）
Founded by	Zhou Yu（周瑜）
Seat	Hechuan Town
Government
• CPC Secretary	Zheng Jun Ping (郑军平)
• Mayor	Gu Qiu Yun (古秋云)
Area
• Total	2,195 km2 (847 sq mi)
• Water	82.5824 km2 (31.8852 sq mi)  3.76%
• Rank	6th in Ji'an (8.7% of Ji'an)
Highest elevation (Qiushan Mountain)	1,391.3 m (4,564.6 ft)
Population  (2021)data from the Seventh National Population Census of the People's Republic of China
• Total	393,984
• Rank	6th in Ji'an (8.8% of Ji'an)
• Density	180/km2 (460/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	343400
Telephone numbers in China	0796
ID card code	360830
Website	www.yongxin.gov.cn

Yongxin County (simplified Chinese: 永新县; traditional Chinese: 永新縣; pinyin: Yǒngxīn Xiàn) is a county in the west of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering Hunan province to the west. It is located within the Jinggang Mountains under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Ji'an. The county was built in the ninth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han dynasty that is, in 204 AD. The name of the county was derived from Great Learning in the meaning of "the sun (日) is forever (永) and the moon (月) is new (新)".^[1]

One of the villages in Yongxin, Sanwan Town, is known for the creation of the 1st regiment of the Chinese Red Army led by Mao Zedong with 1,000 soldiers that fled the Kuomintang after the failed Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927.