Located about 250 kilometers southwest of Hangzhou, the provincial capital, it is the only county-level city in Quzhou.

[1] USA Today described Jiangshan as a "fairly prosperous city in one of China's most developed provinces".

[2] The Jiangshanian Age of the Cambrian Period of geological time is named for Jiangshan.

It has 3 Subdistricts, 11 Towns, 5 Townships,[3] 13 residential communities, and 292 administrative villages: Among the handful of schools in Jiangshan is Jiangshan Experimental Primary School, which is part of Zhejiang University's Global TEFL network.

The program sends native English-speakers to their network schools to teach English for periods of 2–4 weeks.