Quanzhou is located at 24 22' ~ 25 56' north latitude and117 34' ~19 05' east longitude, with an area of 1 1220.5 square kilometers. * * * governs Licheng, Fengze, Luojiang, Quangang, Shishi, Jinjiang, Nan 'an, Hui 'an, Anxi, Yongchun, Dehua and kinmen county, with a population of 6,546,200 (excluding kinmen county), and speaks Minnan dialect.

Quanzhou, as the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, is one of the first 24 famous historical and cultural cities in the State Council. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Quanzhou Tong Tong Port was one of the four major foreign trade ports in China. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it was called the largest port in the East together with Alexandria.

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Quanzhou has a developed private economy, known as "Brand Capital of China" and "Private Special Zone", and the number of national well-known trademarks ranks first among prefecture-level cities in China. Quanzhou is an important commercial port city along the southeast coast of China, and Quanzhou Port is an important 100 million-ton port in China.

20 15 as a part of China's "one belt, one road" strategy, Quanzhou is positioned as "the pioneer area of the 2 1 century maritime silk road". July 20 15, China Academy of Engineering took Quanzhou as the only local model and practical example of "Made in China 2025".

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