地理環(huán)境：
　　九江市是一座具"-2200多年歷史的江南名城；130多年前,這里就是對外通商口岸；1992年被國務院批準為長江沿岸開放城市.
　　交通：
　　長江是中國最大、最長的東西向水上大通道,京九鐵路是我國最長、現(xiàn)代化程度最高的南北向陸上運輸大通道.兩條大動脈在九江市區(qū)交匯,九江成為承東啟西、引南接北的金十字交匯點.
　　優(yōu)勢、特色產(chǎn)業(yè)：
　　在九江跨世紀發(fā)展的關鍵時期,新一屆市政府確定未來五年的發(fā)展思路是：高舉鄧小平理論偉大旗幟,以黨的十五大精神為指針,以經(jīng)濟建設為中心,以“三個"-利于”為標準,解放思想,深化改革,擴大開放,保持穩(wěn)定,在結構調整中求突破,在提升科技中求增長,在改善環(huán)境中求發(fā)展,揚長避短,揚優(yōu)成勢,加快農(nóng)業(yè)產(chǎn)業(yè)化、工業(yè)現(xiàn)代化,三產(chǎn)多元化、城鄉(xiāng)一體化進程,建設一個經(jīng)濟發(fā)達、功能完善、環(huán)境優(yōu)美、市風浪好、人民安居樂業(yè)的新九江.考慮災后重建的特殊情況,“九五”時期及至未來15年,九江將力爭建設成為京九中段、長江中下游的商貿、旅游、物流中心和百萬人口的現(xiàn)代港口城市.
　　Geographical environment:
　　Jiujiang City,is a characteristic of "-2200-year-old city south of the Yangtze River; more than 130 years ago,here is the external port; was approved by the State Council in 1992 for open cities along the Yangtze River.
　　Transport:
　　Yangtze River is China's largest,the longest east-west major water channels,the Beijing-Kowloon Railway in China's longest,the highest degree of modernization of the North-South Corridor to major land transport.Two great arteries in the convergence of Jiujiang,Jiujiang,east and west to become,citing the south crossroads of the north point of the Golden Cross.
　　Advantages,special industries:
　　In Jiujiang,a crucial period for the cross-century development,the new City Hall to determine the development of the next five years is:to hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory to the spirit of the party's congress as the guideline,taking economic construction as the center to the "three" -- benefits "as the standard,our minds,deepening reform,expanding opening up,maintain stability,structural adjustment in order to breakthroughs in science and technology in order to enhance growth,improve the environment and development,揚長避短,Yang Cheng excellent potential to accelerate the industrialization of agriculture,industrial modernization,and third diverse,urban-rural integration process,the construction of a developed economy,with perfect functions and a beautiful environment,the city of wind and waves,and the new people live and work in peace Jiujiang.to consider the special circumstances of post-disaster reconstruction,"Ninth Five-Year Plan" period until the next 15 years,Jiujiang Beijing will strive to build itself into the middle of the Yangtze River middle and lower reaches of the commerce,tourism,logistics centers and millions of people,the modern port city.