Chiu-lung RiverJiulong RiverChinese (Pinyin) Jiulong Jiang, or (Wade-Giles romanization) Chiu-lung Chiang, Pinyin Jiulong Jiangriver in southeastern Fukien Fujian province, China. The Chiu-lung River river rises in the mountains northwest of Chang-chouZhangzhou, draining a large interior basin above Chang-p’ingZhangping. The Hsin-ch’iao Xinqiao River and the Yen-shih Yanshi River and their tributaries drain the northeast and the southwest of this the basin, respectively. The river then breaks through the coastal ranges in a generally southeasterly direction, parallel to the Po-p’ing Boping Mountains, running northwest-southeast; the range forms the watershed between the Chiu-lung Jiulong and the upper waters of the Han River. The Chiu-lung Jiulong River discharges into the Xiamen (Amoy) estuary, receiving just above its mouth its largest southern tributary, the Hsi Xi River. The river itself is too swift and dangerous for navigation in its upper reaches, and junks and steamboats can use the estuary only as far as Lung-hai (Shih-maShima (in Longhai municipality), and the Hsi Xi River as far as Chang-chouZhangzhou, which was once an important seaport until the estuary silted up.

Although the river is unnavigable, the Chiu-lung Jiulong valley is an important route from Amoy Xiamen to the interior, and since 1957 it has been followed by a railway and a highway have paralleled its course.