Zoucheng is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jining City, Shandong Province. Located in the southwest of Shandong Province, at 116 24'-117 3' east longitude and 35 11'-35 32' north latitude, it is the birthplace of Confucius and Mencius, a famous thinker and educator in China history, and is known as "the land of Confucius, Mencius and the birthplace of culture". Zoucheng is adjacent to Yimeng Mountain area in the east, Luxi Plain in the west, Xuhuai in the south, Taidai in the north and Qufu in Ludu in the south, with a total area of 1,613 square kilometers and a built-up area of 24 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over three sub-district offices of Gangshan, Qianquan and Fushan, and fourteen towns of Tianhuang, Zhangzhuang, Chengqian, Dashu, Xiangcheng, Yishan, Kanzhuang, Tangcun, Guoli, Shiqiang, Beisu, Taiping, Zhongdian and Pingyang Temple, with a total population of 1.12 million, including 25, urban residents, mainly Han residents. Zoucheng terrain is high in the east and low in the west, with mountainous peaks, rolling hills, and fertile plains, with three landforms each accounting for one-third. It has a warm temperate transitional monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, mild climate and beautiful scenery. Zoucheng was called "the Holy Land of Zou Lu" in ancient times, which was the birthplace of Confucianism in China. The Xia Dynasty belonged to Xuzhou, Kyushu. The Qin Dynasty began to set up "Li County", and in the Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the early Tang Dynasty changed "Li" to Zou County, which was called Zoucheng City. It continued until October 1992, when the county was withdrawn and the city was established.

Zoucheng has a long history and rich tourism resources. It is a famous cultural city with a history of 3, years. Here, there are outstanding people and talented people, including Meng Mu, a virtuous mother who moved three times to choose her neighbors and taught her children, Mencius, a Confucian sage who was praised as "not under Yu", and Kuang Heng, a scholar of the Western Han Dynasty who was told as a story for generations and worked hard to study ... A long history and splendid culture left a lot of precious historical and cultural heritage for Zoucheng. The "Sanmeng" ancient architectural complex (Mengmiao, Mengfu and Menglin), the "Four Mountains" cliff carved with fine Buddhist culture and calligraphy art, and the Ming Lu Huang Mausoleum, the largest underground palace in the north of Nanjiang, are known as "Zoulu Xiuling" and "Dainan Wonder"-Yishan.

Zoucheng is rich in mineral resources with complete varieties. * * * There are more than 2 varieties in 8 categories, mainly coal, granite and limestone, followed by yellow sand, kaolin, quartz stone, marble and barite. The area of coal storage in China is 375 square kilometers, and the geological reserves are more than 4.1 billion tons. Yankuang Group, a super-large enterprise in China, and Zouxian Power Plant, the largest pit power plant in China, are all located in Zoucheng.

Zoucheng is a national historical and cultural city and a new energy industrial city. Since the reform and opening up, millions of people in Zoucheng have taken advantage of the east wind of opening up, bathed in the spring rain of reform, worked hard in unity, kept pace with the times, strived to open up, and achieved fruitful results in economic and social undertakings. In 24, the city's GDP reached 23.332 billion yuan, an increase of 2.6% over the previous year. Local fiscal revenue reached 1 billion yuan, an increase of 26.89%; The total retail sales of social consumer goods reached 4.47 billion yuan, an increase of 17.7%; Investment in fixed assets above designated size reached 8.2 billion yuan, an increase of 25.3%. Adhere to optimizing the structure and improving production conditions, and the rural economy has grown steadily. Zoucheng is a national commodity grain base. On the basis of stabilizing grain production, it has further intensified the adjustment of agricultural structure, made full use of the advantages of mountainous areas in the east, and vigorously developed the production of characteristic fruit trees. The construction of 1, mu of economic forests such as walnuts, pomegranates, big cherries and apples has begun to take shape. Vigorously promote the agricultural technology revolution, and strengthen the popularization and application of high-tech, excellent scientific research achievements and excellent varieties around promoting agricultural efficiency and increasing farmers' income. Seven high-standard agricultural science and technology demonstration parks have been built in the city, with obvious demonstration and driving effects; Actively implement the strategy of leading agricultural enterprises to guide the development of animal husbandry to regionalization and scale, improve the level of agricultural industrialization and promote the development of rural economy. Insist on deepening reform and restructuring, and the comprehensive competitiveness of the industrial economy has been significantly enhanced. Unswervingly push forward the strategic adjustment of economic structure, strive to improve the management, system and technological innovation ability of enterprises, and realize two major changes of backbone enterprises from expansion and extension to rich connotation, from quantitative accumulation to qualitative improvement. With the rapid rise of industrial production, the city has formed an industrial system with six pillar industries, such as coal, electric power, brewing, chemicals, textiles and building materials, with reasonable structure and complete categories. There are nearly 3, products, mainly raw coal, fertilizer, liquor, beer, machine-made paper, ceramics, clothing, cement, granite plates, chemical products, hardware tools and mechanical castings, among which clothing and ceramics. In 24, industrial enterprises above designated size in the city achieved sales revenue of 29.4 billion yuan and profits and taxes of 5.464 billion yuan.