Zhangzhou City, referred to as "Zhang", also known as the seaside Zulu, the hometown of daffodils, is located in longitude 116 ° 53 ′ ~ 118 ° 09 ′, latitude 23 ° 32 ′ ~ 25 ° 13 ′ between the southern end of the Golden Triangle of southern Fujian Province, east of Xiamen, Quanzhou City, north of the city of Longyan adjoining the west of Guangdong Province with the city of Meizhou City, Chaozhou City, the junction, the southeast and Taiwan Province across the sea. Southeast and Taiwan Province across the sea. The city has a land area of 12,600 square kilometers and a sea area of 18,600 square kilometers. The climate is mild and subtropical monsoon humid. As of October 2022, Zhangzhou City has four municipal districts and seven counties under its jurisdiction, with the municipal government located in Xiangcheng District. As of the end of 2022, Zhangzhou City had a resident population of 5,068,000 people.
The territory of Zhangzhou City has been inhabited by the ancestors 10,000 years ago. In the twenty-fifth year of Qin Shihuang (222 years ago), it was included in the central map of Qin and belonged to Minzhong County. In the second year of the Tang Dynasty (686), General Chen Yuanguang's request to build Zhangzhou was approved, and Zhangzhou Prefecture was set up, which was later renamed Zhangzhou County, Zhangzhou Prefecture, etc. In 1949, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was changed into the Sixth Administrative Region of Fujian Province, which was also called Longxi Prefecture, and then changed into Longxi District in 1969 and then changed into Zhangzhou City in 1985, and in 1985 it was listed as the National Coastal Economy Opening Area by the State Council, and was one of the areas of the nation that opened up to the outside world in the early days. Zhangzhou City is also the mother of the Chinese volleyball team. Zhangzhou City is also the mother house of the Chinese women's volleyball team, the center city of the West Coast Economic Zone, the city of China's clocks and watches, and the city of China's hot springs. Zhangzhou City is home to the World Heritage-listed Nanjing Tulou, Dongshan Island, Zhangzhou Coastal Volcanoes National Geopark, and Yundongyan.
In 2022, the gross regional product of Zhangzhou City is 570.658 billion yuan, an increase of 6.9% over the previous year, the ratio of the three industries is 10.0:50.1:39.9, and the per capita gross regional product is 112,578 yuan.