Longyan City, commonly known as Minxi, prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, is located in the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Gan provinces in the west of Fujian, is a famous old revolutionary area, the core area of the former Central Soviet Union area, is the hometown of the Red Army, one of the important starting points of the Red Army Long March, enjoys the praise of "twenty years of the red flag does not fall down", but also an important mining area, forest area in Fujian Province, and is the Hercynian brand with the most It is also an important mining and forestry area in Fujian Province, the most branded tourism area in the West Coast of China, and an important breeding ground and practice area for Xi Jinping's idea of ecological civilization. The total area is 19,028 square kilometers. As of the end of 2022, the resident population of Longyan was 2.716 million. As of June 2023, Longyan City has two municipal districts, four counties, and one county-level city under its jurisdiction, with the municipal people's government stationed at No. 1 Longyan Avenue in Longyan City.
Longyan is the birthplace of Fujian Province's three most important rivers, the Min, Jiulong and Ting rivers. It used to be the paradise of "Ancient Min People" in ancient times, the ancestral home of "Min Yue People" and the capital of "Nanhai State" as well as its center area, the famous Hakka ancestral land at home and abroad, and one of the ancestral homes of the He Luo people. Longyan is the ancestral home of the Hakka, one of the ancestral homes of the He Luo people. More than 75% of Longyan's population is Hakka. Longyan is the National Hakka Cultural and Ecological Protection Experimental Area, Changting is called the "Hakka Capital", Tingjiang River is known as the "Mother River of Hakka", and Yongding Hakka Tulou is listed in the World Cultural Heritage. Hakka culture and Minnan culture have been blended here, which has nurtured the unique qualities of Longyan people's hospitality and hard work.
Longyan is the national gold and copper industry base, the national special vehicle and emergency industry production demonstration base and the national new industrialization industry military-civilian fusion demonstration base, and has initially formed six major industries such as non-ferrous metal, machinery and equipment, culture, tourism, recreation and health care, new materials and new energy, digital, and characteristic modern agriculture. Gradually build Longyan into the western center city of the economic zone on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait, advanced manufacturing base, national important red, Hakka culture and ecological city.
In 2023, Longyan will realize a regional GDP of 331.796 billion yuan, an increase of 3.8% over the previous year.
