Jianou City, county-level city under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, administered by Nanping City, is located in the northern part of Fujian Province, southeast of Wuyi Mountain Range, northwest of Vulture Peak Mountain Range, between 117°58'45"~118°57'11 "E longitude and 26°38'54"~27°20'26N latitude. " between the subtropical oceanic monsoon climate, four distinct seasons, rainfall, rainy spring and summer, fall and winter dry, a total area of 4,233 square kilometers. As of October 2022, Jian'ou City has 4 streets, 10 towns, and 4 townships under its jurisdiction, with the municipal government stationed at No. 68, Ou Ning Road, Ou Ning Street. As of the end of 2022, Jianou City has a resident population of 427,000 people.
Jian'ou city has a civilization history of more than 3,000 years and a history of more than 1,800 years of county founding. In the early year of Jian'an of the Eastern Han Dynasty (196), Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty, set up Jian'an County, which is one of the earliest ancient counties founded in Fujian. In the history of Fujian, the first county, the first state and the first government are all located in Jian'ou. Tang Kaiyuan twenty-one years (733), take the first word of Fuzhou, Jianzhou, the establishment of "Fujian by the Secretary", the name "Fujian" from this, continues to this day. Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing thirty-two years (1162), Song Xiaozong Zhao (shèn) in Jian'ou set up Fujian's first government "Jianning Province". In the second year of the Republic of China (1913), the Jianning Prefecture was withdrawn, and Jian'an and Ou'ning counties became Jian'ou County, and in 1992, the county was withdrawn and established as a city. It is the largest county-level city in Fujian Province with the largest area and the largest population in northern Fujian.
Jian'ou city is "the thousand years wine city", "China bamboo shoots capital", is the national culture advanced county, the first batch of provincial historical and cultural city, one of the eighteen national thousands of jinshi county, successive generations out of 1,154 jinshi, 6 scholars, 10 zaifu, the existing Dongyue temple, Jianning Confucius Temple, Beiyuan Royal Baking Site, Dikou Value Celebration Bridge 4 national key cultural relics protection units and Guizongyan, Wanmulin, Guangxiao Zen Temple, Weiwumen, Linjiangmen, Tongjimen, Tongxianmen and other tourist attractions.
In 2022, Jian'ou City completed a GDP of 30.301 billion yuan, an increase of 2.4%.