Quanzhou, Fujian, China

Quanzhou, also known as Carp City, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, one of the central cities in the economic zone on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait, and a modern industrial and trade port city, as approved by the People's Government of Fujian Province. Quanzhou is located in East China, 117°25′-119°05′ East longitude, 24°30′-25°56′ North latitude, north of Fuzhou, Putian, south of Xiamen, east of Taiwan Island, is a subtropical maritime monsoon climate, climate conditions are superior . As of 2020, the city has four municipal districts, three county-level cities and five counties, with a total area of 11,015 square kilometers. According to the data of the seventh census, the resident population of Quanzhou City was 8,782,285,000 as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020. In 2021, Quanzhou City achieved a regional GDP of 1,130.417 billion yuan.
Quanzhou has a long history, with economic development beginning as early as the Zhou and Qin dynasties. In the third year of the Three Kingdoms Wu Yong'an (260), Dong'an County was established in the town of Fengzhou in present-day Nan'an City. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, warring clans from the Central Plains entered Quan in large numbers. During the Liang Dynasty (502-519), Nan'an County was set up as the county government, which was the beginning of the local setting of the county and county government. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, Quanzhou once became the world's largest port. Quanzhou is the only place recognized by the United Nations as the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, and is included in the national "One Belt, One Road" strategy of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Pilot Area. Quanzhou is one of the first national historical and cultural cities, the first East Asian Cultural Capital, a World Heritage city, a national civilized city, and a national sanitary city.
Quanzhou is a city with Minnan dialect as the main dialect, and there are many other dialects such as Putian and Hakka. Quanzhou is an overseas Chinese town. There are more than 7.5 million overseas Chinese and Chinese of Quanzhou ancestry, and 760,000 compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, located in 129 countries and regions around the world. There are more than 2.5 million returned overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese family members. In Taiwan, 44.8% of Han Chinese (about 9 million) are of Quanzhou ancestry.