Guilin City, abbreviated as "Gui", the ancient name of Guizhou, Jingjiang, Shi'an, prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the provincial area of the deputy center of the city, located in South China, Xianggui corridor south, is located in the southwestern part of the South Ridge Mountain System, Guilin - Yangshuo karst basin in the north of the central part of the "" Hunan-Guizhou Sandwich Road" in the subtropical monsoon climate. Xiang-Gui Sandwich Road", subtropical monsoon climate, with a total area of 27,800 square kilometers. As of May 2023, the city has six municipal districts, eight counties, two autonomous counties, and one county-level city under its jurisdiction. As of the end of 2022, Guilin had a resident population of 4,956,300. The name "Guilin" began in the Qin Dynasty, when Emperor Qin Shi Huang set up three counties, namely Guilin, Xiang, and Nanhai, and Guilin County became famous for its abundance of jade laurel, which is the earliest origin of the name "Guilin". Guilin is a world-famous scenic city, a sacred place of wisdom, an important high-tech industrial base in China, an old industrial base in China, a large city of type II, a third-tier city, an international tourist city open to the outside world in China, an advanced zone of innovative development of the national tourism industry, and a comprehensive international tourism transportation hub, and an important node city at the strategic intersection of the Pan-Pearl River Delta Economic Zone and the ASEAN Free Trade Area. It is a national sanitary city, a national civilized city, the second batch of sponge city construction demonstration city, and an international tourist destination with a focus on new industries. It is the first batch of national famous historical and cultural cities, and belonged to Guilin County after the Qin Shi Huang unified Lingnan. Guilin is an important university cluster in Guangxi, with 16 universities including Guangxi Normal University, Guilin University of Electronic Science and Technology, Guilin University of Science and Technology, Guilin Medical College, and Army Special Operations College. In 2023, Guilin realized a gross regional product of 253.447 billion yuan. The annual per capita GDP was 49,196 yuan, an increase of 2.3% over the previous year.