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Jilin has a temperate continental monsoonal climate. It is the climatic transition zone between the northern and southern parts of northeast China, with cold and long winters, warm, short and rainy summers, and a windy spring and autumn with ever-changing weather. Jilin has a mean annual temperature of 5.5ÂșC, an annual ice-bound period of around five months in its rivers, and a mean annual precipitation of 400-1,000 mm. The precipitation at the southern foothills of the Changbai Mountains exceeds 1,000 mm. and decreases gradually from southeast to northwest. 
  (china.org.cn) 
 
                  
 
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