former town, southern Liaoning sheng (province), China. Now administratively a district under the city of Dalian, it is situated on Jinzhou Bay, a part of the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli), and on the neck of the Liaodong Peninsula immediately northeast of Dalian. Jinzhou is an important transportation centre, where the rail and highway routes from Dalian to Shenyang (Mukden) and to Dandong converge.
One of the most ancient towns in Manchuria (Northeast China), it was the principal administrative and commercial centre of the Liaodong Peninsula before the 20th century. The meteoric rise of nearby Dalian, however, formerly a fishing village, led to its decline. Jinzhou remains a local market town and has developed industrially as a satellite of Dalian, having large textile mills, a major paper plant, and heavy-machine manufacturing works.
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