The Jinggangshan Nature Reserve was set up in 1981, and was upgraded to a national nature reserve in April 2000. Total area of the nature reserve is 15,873 hectares. It is a forestry-type nature reserve, which aims at protecting the mountain forest ecosystem as well as rare and precious wild animals and plants. The terrain in the reserve is stiff and the land forms are complicated. In the nature reserve, there are more than 50 peaks at an elevation of more than 1,000 meters above the sea level, with the highest peak, Mount Pingshui, at an elevation of 1,779 meters. The mountains show clear vertical variations in climate, vegetation and soil. The average temperature ranges between 14 and 17 degrees centigrade, and the annual precipitation is 1,865.5mm and the frost-free period is 250 days.
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