Pukou District is located in the northwest of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is one of the eight districts of the main city of Nanjing, an important national pharmaceutical base, science and education base and advanced manufacturing base, the Yangtze River Delta region to the inland hinterland of the radiation of the western bridgehead, is a modernized riverfront district with integrated circuit industry, high-end transportation equipment industry, culture, tourism and health industry as the leading industrial system, and Liouhe District, which constitutes the new district of Jiangbei, Nanjing.
The establishment of Pukou District began in 1933, from the eighth district of the Republic of China, because Pukou City (Puzikou City) is located in the territory, so the name Pukou District. The history of Pukou District can be traced back to the "Hemudu Era", with a civilization history of more than 7,000 years, giving birth to a diverse and unique local culture. After the Ming Emperor set his capital at Nanjing, he considered Pukou to be "a stronghold against the north and south, and a stronghold over the river and Huaihuai", so he built the city of Pukou, which was set up as a commercial port in 1912, and the Jinpu Railway from Tianjin to Pukou, Nanjing, was officially opened to the public in 1914, and the Pukou Railway Station became the national railroad transportation hub at that time.
Pukou District has a patchwork of terrain, with "a generation of grass saint, ten miles of hot springs, a hundred miles of Old Mountain, a thousand years of ginkgo, ten thousand egrets, one hundred thousand acres of national forest park" reputation, has formed along the Old Mountain, along the Yangtze River, along the Chu River, the three major tourism system, with "Pearl Spring - Old Mountain -Tangquan Tourism Resort" as the core, to the riverside urban scenery belt, along the Chu rural tourism and leisure belt as the "two wings" of the big tourism pattern.
As of 2020, Pukou District under the jurisdiction of nine streets, with a total area of 913.75 square kilometers, in 2022, the resident population of 411,600, the gross regional product of 51.213 billion yuan, calculated on the basis of comparable prices, compared with the previous year, an increase of 3.2%.
