1. Quanzhou, a prefecture-level city along the southeast coast of Fujian Province, is also called Licheng and Erythrina. It is connected to Fuzhou in the north, Xiamen in the south and Taiwan Province Island in the east. It has a subtropical maritime monsoon climate with superior climatic conditions. It has jurisdiction over four districts of Licheng, Fengze, Luojiang and Quangang, three county-level cities of Jinjiang, Shishi and Nan 'an, five counties of Hui 'an, Anxi, Yongchun, Dehua and Jinmen (to be unified), Quanzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone and quanzhou taiwanese investment zone. Land area 1 10 15 square kilometers (including kinmen). At the end of 20 18, the resident population was 8.7 million (excluding kinmen).

2. The main dialect is Quanzhou dialect in southern Fujian, and a few people speak Putian dialect and She dialect.

Quanzhou has a long history, and its economic development began as early as the Zhou and Qin Dynasties. In the third year of Wu Yong 'an in the Three Kingdoms (260), Dongan County was established in Fengzhou Town, Nan 'an City. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a war in the Central Plains, and a large number of gentry entered the spring. Southern Liang Prison (502 ~ 5 19) set Nan 'an County as the county government, which was the beginning of setting up the county government. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Quanzhou once became the largest port in the world.

4. Quanzhou is the only starting point of the Maritime Silk Road recognized by the United Nations, and it is listed as the pioneer area of the 2 1 century Maritime Silk Road in the national "Belt and Road" strategy. Quanzhou is one of the first national historical and cultural cities, the first East Asian cultural capital, a national civilized city and a national health city. 2065438+April 2008, Quanzhou was selected as a new batch of cities to carry out innovative city construction.

Quanzhou is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. There are more than 7.5 million overseas Chinese whose ancestral homes are in Quanzhou, and 760,000 compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, distributed in 129 countries and regions around the world. More than 2.5 million returned overseas Chinese and their relatives. In Taiwan Province Province, 44.8% of the Han people (about 9 million) come from Quanzhou.