Fuzhou is the cultural, political and scientific research center of Fujian Province. It has been the local administrative center of Fujian for most of 1000 years since the Southern Dynasties and Chen Dynasty. Traditionally, Fuzhou is the collective name of eleven cities in Fuzhou (including Minhou County, Changle City, Lianjiang County, Minqing County, Yongtai County, Gutian County, pingnan county City, Fuqing City, Pingtan County and Luoyuan County).
Fuzhou was one of the first batch of 14 coastal port cities in the State Council in May, 1984. It is the largest city among nine districts in Fujian, the closest provincial capital center city of Chinese mainland to Taiwan Province Province, and one of the regions with high degree of marketization and opening to the outside world in China. With sustained, rapid, coordinated and healthy economic and social development, Fuzhou has initially formed a modern city with prosperous economy, developed science and education, perfect facilities and beautiful environment, and has been rated as one of the fastest-growing provincial capital cities in China. Fuzhou is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China. There are more than 3 million overseas Chinese whose ancestral home is in Fuzhou, distributed in five continents 102 countries and regions. The number of returned overseas Chinese and their relatives in Fuzhou is as high as 2 million, and there are nearly 300,000 folks in Fuzhou, Hong Kong and Macao. There is sea water all over the world.
Almost all places have the footprints of Fuzhou people. There are a large number of Fuzhou folks not only in developed countries such as the United States, Japan and Western Europe, but also in developing countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia. There are also Fuzhou people's footprints in some backward countries and small and remote areas such as Barbados, Marshall, Antigua and Barbuda and Sierra Leone. Fuzhou and Taiwan Province Province are separated by a strip of water, facing each other by land, with the same language and similar habits. Humanities exchange has a long history and has always been closely related. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, 30,000 people from Fuzhou went to Taiwan Province. Now there are 27 Fuzhou Fellowship Associations in Taiwan Province Province, with more than 600,000 Fuzhou folks. There are more than 30,000 Taiwan Province compatriots living in Fuzhou1.20,000 people from Taiwan Province. In 2000, the city's GDP exceeded 1000 billion yuan, reaching100327 billion yuan, and its comprehensive economic strength ranked among the top 26 provincial capital cities in China. Social undertakings have developed vigorously, and won the titles of "National Advanced City for Creating Civilized Cities", "National Advanced Collective for Urban and Rural Greening" and "National Advanced City for Revitalizing the City through Science and Technology" for three times, and won the titles of "National Model City with Double Support", "National Sanitary City" and "China Excellent Tourism City" for four consecutive times. 20 1 1 65438+ won "all" in February.
The title of "China Civilized City". Fuzhou is nicknamed "Three Mountains" because there are three mountains in the city: Pingshan, Wushan and Yushan. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Boyu, the magistrate of Pingping, personally planted two banyan trees in front of the yamen, calling on the people to plant them widely, so the city was full of green trees, so it was also called Rongcheng. It has jurisdiction over five districts of Gulou District, Taijiang District, Cangshan District, Mawei District and Jin 'an District, six counties of Minhou County, Lianjiang County, Luoyuan County, Minqing County, Yongtai County and Pingtan County, two cities of Fuqing and Changle, five districts and six counties of Langqi Economic Zone, two county-level cities and one economic zone. The total land area of the city is 12 154 square kilometers, of which the urban area is 1786 square kilometers, and the total registered population of the city is about 7 1 1000, of which the total registered population of the urban area is about 292 1700. The city has 34 sub-district offices, 105 towns, 48 townships (including 2 ethnic townships and Mazu townships), and 2795 village (neighborhood) committees and community neighborhood committees. Speak Fuzhou dialect in eastern Fujian.
Fujian cuisine is often listed as one of the state banquets, and the taste of Fuzhou people is sweet and sour. There are dozens of kinds of local snacks, such as fish balls, meat swallows, shrimp cakes, oyster cakes, light cakes, fixed-edge paste, spring rolls, fried noodles and Fuzhou noodles.
The main attractions are Gushan, Wu Shan, Yushan, Sanfangqixiang, Xichan Temple, Wangmin Temple, Lin Zexu Ancestral Hall, West Lake Park, Jiang Bin Park, Hualin Temple, Strait International Convention and Exhibition Center (Convention Island) and Pingtan Island. Famous mountains include Gushan, Qishan, Qingyun Mountain, Yushan, Wushan and Pingshan. The famous tombs are Wang's tomb, Li Gang's tomb and Lin Zexu's tomb. Famous gardens include Fuzhou West Lake, South Park and Yantai Mountain. Famous pagodas include the White Pagoda,
Wuta, Luoxing Tower, Ruiyun Tower and Sanfeng Tower. The famous bridges are Wanshou Bridge, Huilong Bridge and Longjiang Bridge. The famous houses include the former residence of Lin Hanshu, Lin Zexu, Yan Fu, Zheng Zhenduo, Chen Shaokuan, Lin Juemin, Bing Xin and Sa Zhenbing. Fuzhou specialties include olives, oranges, longan, litchi, hibiscus plums, jasmine tea, Shoushan stone carvings, bodiless lacquerware, wood paintings, wood carvings, paper umbrellas, shell carvings, porcelain, horn combs and so on. The development of history