I remember attending a reception in Beijing to promote investment in Jingsha City, Hubei Province. The first speaker was Jingsha’s Party Secretary; the second speaker was the Mayor.
Plans were also announced to build a new rail link from Wuhan directly to the Three Gorges via Jingsha and Yichang.[…] The new Jingsha can be expected to grow rapidly, following the example of Xiangfan 200 kilometres to the north which was listed in 1992 with Wuhan among China’s top 54 cities (all had GDP exceeding ten billion renminbi annually).[…] For all the talk of cooperation, Wuhan and Shanghai remain competitors, while the new Jingsha and other medium-sized cities will seek to challenge the dominance of the giants.
1997, National Museum of Chinese History, Wang Guanying, Wang Zhiben, Chen Chengjun, Wang Yonghong, Lai Guolong, Shao Wenliang, Shao Xiaomeng, “Warring States Period (475–221 BC)”, in Gong Lizeng, Yang Aiwen, Wang Xingzheng, transl., edited by Zheng Wenlei, A Journey into China's Antiquity[3], 1st edition, volume 2, Morning Glory Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 16, columns 1–3:
Chu was a very large state. Its territory extended from the eastern border of what is now Sichuan Province and covered the whole of Hubei Province, northeastern Hunan Province, northern Jiangxi Province, northern Anhui Province, southern Henan Province, the middle part of the area north of the Huai River in Jiangsu Province, and the southeastern corner of Shaanxi Province. Its capital was originally at Ying (now Jinan Town, Jingsha City, Hubei).
I unfolded a map of China and located the city of Jingzhou (in 1994, the two districts, Shashi and Jingzhou, were amalgamated into the city of Jingsha, and later renamed the city of Jingzhou), where my high school was located, right in the geographic center of China.
A few years back, there were debates over whether the Yangtze might end up like the Yellow River. The answer should be clear by now. Jingsha[sic – meaning Jinsha] River, as the upper third of the Yangtze is called, saw an increase in silt discharge of 0.4 kilograms per cubic meter between 1982 and 1985.
2001, Cai Hua, “General Presentation”, in Asti Hustvedt, transl., A Society without Fathers or Husbands: the Na of China[7], New York: Zone Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 36, 37:
The Jingsha[sic – meaning Jinsha] River, upriver from the Yangzi, cuts the region in two. The groups on the east side of the river, the NaRu, the Na, and the Nahing, understand one another.[…] For the most part, this region has four types of relief: mountains that reach an altitude of 3,800 to 4,500 meters, the Yongning basin (2,670 meters in altitude), the shores of Lake Lugu (2,700 meters), and the terraces (about 1,600 meters) of the Jingsha[sic – meaning Jinsha] River valley.
The 1st Army now swiftly moved southwest and then swung north to the Jingsha[sic – meaning Jinsha] River, as the Yangzi is called upstream.
2008 January 29, Shai Oster, “Pact May Ease Impact Of Three Gorges Dam”, in Wall Street Journal[9], archived from the original on 13 July 2015, World[10]:
The two also have signed an agreement for broad cooperation on researching ecologically better ways to manage four more dams being built or planned further upstream from the Three Gorges on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, known as the Jingsha[sic – meaning Jinsha] River.
2010, Yang Mu, Teng Siow Song, “China's Looming Water Crisis: Is Beijing Struggling to Overcome It?”, in China's New Social Policy: Initiatives for a Harmonious Society (Series on Contemporary China)[11], volume 20, World Scientific, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 178–179:
The Western Line starts from Jingsha[sic – meaning Jinsha] River (the upstream of Yangtze River), Daduhe River and Yalong River (both of them are branches of the Yangtze River), passes the Qingzang Plateau through many tunnels under mountains before entering the upstream of the Yellow River at a length of 300 kilometres to supply water to Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi and Shanxi (see Map 1).
