Quanzhou, located in the southeast of Fujian Province, is one of the three central cities in Fujian. Its economic aggregate has ranked first in the province for nine consecutive years and is the economic center of Fujian.

It borders the provincial capitals Fuzhou and Putian to the north, Xiamen Special Economic Zone to the south, Taiwan Treasure Island to the east, and Zhangzhou, Longyan and Sanming to the west.

It currently governs 4 districts: Licheng, Fengze, Luojiang and Quangang, 3 county-level cities of Jinjiang, Shishi and Nan'an, 5 counties of Hui'an, Anxi, Yongchun, Dehua and Kinmen (to be unified) and Quanzhou Economic and Technological Development

district.

The city has a land area of ??11,015 square kilometers and a population of 7.62 million (excluding Kinmen County). Han people account for 98.2% of the total population and ethnic minorities account for 1.8%.

There are 48 ethnic minorities, the majority of which are Hui, She, Miao and Mongolian.

Quanzhou's scenery and people's customs are simple, profound and unique.

The three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism flourished side by side and integrated with each other.

The dialect is mainly Hokkien, and the common language is Mandarin.

Quanzhou is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and the main ancestral home of compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Currently, there are 6.24 million overseas Chinese and 700,000 compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao scattered around the world with their ancestral home in Quanzhou.

In Taiwan, 44.8% of Han compatriots (about 9 million people) are originally from Quanzhou.

Quanzhou City is surrounded by mountains and faces the sea, with undulating mountains, hills, valleys, and basins scattered among them. There are 455 mountains with an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, mainly distributed in some mountainous areas of Dehua, Yongchun, Anxi, and Nan'an.

The Daiyun Mountain Range extends from the northeast to the southwest, with the main peak at an altitude of 1,856 meters. It is known as the "Roof of Central Fujian".

The terrain within the territory is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, transitioning from mid-mountain and low mountains to coastal hills and basin plains.

Quanzhou's coastline is winding and winding, most of it is bedrock coast, with a total length of about 421 kilometers. It has four bays: Meizhou Bay, Quanzhou Bay, Shenhu Bay, and Weitou Bay, as well as Xiaocuo, Chongwu, Houzhu, Meilin, and Shijing.

14 ports.

Quanzhou spans two subtropical zones in central and southern China, namely the evergreen broad-leaved forest belt in the northwest of Daiyun Mountain that is warm all year round and the subtropical rainforest belt in the southeast that is hot and humid all year round with short-term droughts.

Quanzhou has abundant rainfall all year round. There are as many as 35 streams in Quanzhou with a total length of 1,620 kilometers, and the water resources are quite abundant.

Quanzhou has high total solar radiation, long sunshine hours, abundant light and heat resources, and abundant rainfall. It is called the "hotbed of southern Fujian" and is very important for the development of agricultural production, especially sugar, oil, hemp, forestry, fruit, tea, etc.

Economic crops are extremely beneficial and it is the national production base for oolong tea, Guiyuan and citrus.

There are nearly 100 species of main economic fish, and there are more than 20 species of fish with large output.

The shallow beach area is 1.18 million acres.

It is rich in oysters, razor clams, clams, snails, kelp, seaweed and other shellfish and algae.

There are mainly more than 20 kinds of iron, manganese, gold, coal, quartz sand, granite, kaolin, geothermal, mineral water, etc.

Quanzhou is one of the first batch of 24 historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council, and is known as the "Beachside Zoulu".

It has a rich history and culture, is dotted with places of interest and cultural relics that attract worldwide attention.

It has 12 national-level cultural relics protection units and 27 provincial-level ones.

Quanzhou was "the largest port in the East" in ancient times.

The starting point of the "Maritime Silk Road" has been a place where various religions have coexisted since ancient times, and Eastern and Western cultures have converged. In particular, Buddhism, Taoism, and Manichaeism were once very popular.

Many religious relics constitute a unique cultural scene with great historical and artistic value.

Specialties include Dehua porcelain, Hui'an stone carvings, puppet heads, Lao Fan Zhiwanying Divine Comedy, silk lanterns, Qingyuan tea cakes, Anxi oolong tea, Yongchun old vinegar, and Yongchun paper paintings.

Quanzhou is the English name of Quanzhou.