JinzhouWade-Giles romanization Chin-chou, also spelled conventional Kinchow, or Chinchow, formerly Chin-hsien, Pinyin Jinzhou, or Jinxian, Japanese Kinshu, formerly Jinxianformer town in , southern Liaoning sheng (province), China. It Now administratively a district under the city of Dalian, it is situated on Chin-chou Jinzhou Bay, a part of the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli), and on the neck of the Liaotung Liaodong Peninsula immediately above Lü-ta (Dairen). Chin-chou northeast of Dalian. Jinzhou is an important transportation centre, where the rail and highway routes from Lü-ta to Shen-yang Dalian to Shenyang (Mukden) and to Tan-tung Dandong converge.

One of the most ancient towns in Manchuria (

now known as the

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

in recent years

developed industrially as a satellite of


Dalian, having large textile mills, a


major paper plant, and heavy-machine manufacturing works.

Pop. (mid-1970s est.) 50,000–100,000.