Description
Quanzhou City, referred to as Quan and Li, and Quanzhou Fucheng, also known as Citong, Wenling and Qingyuan, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province of the People's Republic of China, located on the central and southern coast of Fujian Province. It is located in the hilly plain area along the southeastern coast of Fujian. The terrain is high in the northwest, low in the southeast, and Daiyun Mountain is in the northwest. Jinjiang East River and Xixi River converge at Shuangxikou, Nan'an City, and flow eastward through the urban area and into Quanzhou Bay. The Municipal People's Government is located in Donghai Street, Fengze District. Quanzhou is the political, economic, cultural and transportation center of southern Fujian, one of the first batch of national historical and cultural cities, the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road, the World Multicultural Exhibition Center established by UNESCO, the Museum of World Religions, and China's first East Asian Culture Capital, national civilized city, national sanitary city. In the middle and late period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Qingyuan Army (Ping Haijun) regime established by King Liu of Jinjiang was based here, so it is known as the "Thousand-Year Ancient Capital" and the "Ancient Capital of Southern Fujian". During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Quanzhou's overseas trade was developed. It was called "one of the two largest commercial paradises in the world" and "Alexandria of the East" by the Italian traveler Marco Polo, and was called "Alexandria of the East" by the Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta. It is known as "the largest port in the world" and was called "the capital of seven Fujian" by Wu Cheng, a scholar of the Yuan Dynasty.