Jingdezhen (or the Town of Jingde) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangxi province, with a total population of 1,554,000 (2007), bordering Anhui to the north. It is known as the “Porcelain Capital” because it has been producing pottery for 1,700 years.
Jingdezhen’s porcelain has been famous not only in China but in time it became known internationally for being “as thin as paper, as white as jade, as bright as a mirror, and as sound as a bell”.