Jingdezhen (simplified Chinese: 景德镇; traditional Chinese: 景德鎮; pinyin: Jǐngdézhèn), or the Town of Jingde, is a prefecture-level city, previously a town, in Jiangxi Province, China, with a city population of 311,200 (estimate 2006) has been termed the "Porcelain Capital" (瓷都) because of its production of quality china. It has a 1700-year-old history of china production.