Shishi was established as a city in 1988, with a land area of ??160 square kilometers, jurisdiction over 7 towns, 2 sub-district offices, 128 villages (communities), a registered population of 351,000, a permanent population of 694,000, and overseas Chinese. , more than 600,000 compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In 2019, the city achieved a GDP of 91.784 billion yuan, total public fiscal revenue of 5.880 billion yuan, and public fiscal budget revenue of 3.675 billion yuan. Its comprehensive economic strength ranks 15th among the top 100 small and medium-sized cities in the country and 15th in Fujian Province. 2, and won the honorary titles of National Civilized City and National Ecological City. It has five main characteristics:

First, it is a commercial and trade capital. It was once famous throughout the country for its small foreign goods, small market, and small government, creating a scene of "stone lions running all over the country, and stone lions running all over the country". At present, it has the country's first pre-packaged food export pilot, the province's only market procurement trade mode pilot, one of China's top ten professional clothing markets - Shishi International Trade City, as well as fabrics, accessories, textile machinery, children's clothing, e-commerce, Professional markets such as building materials and food have an annual transaction volume of over 100 billion yuan and have trade relationships with 163 countries and regions. It was named "China's most commercially dynamic coastal open city" by Forbes.

The second is a famous clothing city. As the central city of the Fujian style clothing sector, it has successively won titles such as "China's Famous Casual Clothing City", "China's First Batch of Textile Model Industrial Clusters" and "China's Garment Industry Demonstration Cluster". There are more than 8,000 textile and apparel and supporting industry enterprises, forming a complete textile and apparel industry chain covering textile raw materials, spinning and weaving, bleaching, dyeing and finishing, garment processing, auxiliary material production, marketing and other fields, with an output value of over 60 billion yuan. Its main business exceeds 200 billion yuan, and 1.1 billion pieces of clothing are sold around the world every year. One meter of every 10 meters of domestic textiles is produced in Shishi.

The third is the Maritime Silk Road window. On the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, there is a 600-year-old Acropolis, a ten-mile golden coast, and a 10,000-acre city park. Here, the Maritime Silk Road culture, clothing culture, lion culture, and overseas Chinese culture merge and merge. The City God Temple, Dudu Monument, Gusao Pagoda, Liusheng Pagoda, Linluandu, Zhenhai Stone and other historical sites complement each other. The Fujian-Taiwan Dudu Culture Festival, Chenghuang Culture Festival, Fishermen's Cultural Festival, as well as large-scale cultural and economic and trade exchange activities such as the Maritime Silk Road Expo and Shishi International Fashion Week, complement each other. Cultural heritage such as lion dance, lantern riddles, Nanyin and southern Fujian specialties highlight the unique cultural charm of Shishi.

Fourth is a strong maritime market. Shishi is surrounded by the sea on three sides, with a coastline of 67 kilometers and an adjacent sea area of ??968 square kilometers under administrative jurisdiction. It has 5 berths above 10,000 tons and two 100,000-ton berths are about to be completed. The annual port cargo throughput is nearly 40 million tons and the container throughput is nearly 2 million TEUs. It has 9 national-level fishing ports and ranks second in the province in marine fishing volume. It has initially formed a marine industry chain integrating marine biomedicine, shipbuilding, fishery communications, marine fishing, aquatic product processing, aquatic product wholesale, etc.

Fifth is the city of happiness. As a national comprehensive reform pilot for small and medium-sized cities and a pilot for comprehensive urbanization reform in Fujian Province, Shishi City has always adhered to the development concept of "one city, one city" and coordinated the construction of infrastructure, public services, social security and other aspects between urban and rural areas. The province takes the lead in realizing the unification of urban and rural subsistence allowances and full coverage of urban and rural residents’ pension insurance and medical insurance. The per capita GDP of the permanent population exceeds 120,000 yuan, the per capita disposable income of residents exceeds 50,000 yuan, and the urbanization rate reaches 79.1% (the first among counties and cities in the province). 1). The road network density reaches 4.1 kilometers/square kilometers (4.7 times the provincial average).