Lizhou District, under the Sichuan Province, Guangyuan City, is located in the northern edge of the Sichuan Basin, the upper reaches of the Jialing River, is located in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces at the intersection of central Guangyuan City, east of Wangcang County, south of Jiange County, Zhaohua District, west of Qingchuan County, north of the Chaotian District, between the east longitude of 105 ° 27 ′ ~ 106 ° 04 ′, latitude of 32 ° 19 ′ ~ 32 ° 37 ′ between the subtropical wet monsoon climate, the four seasons, the clear. The total area is 1538.53 square kilometers. As of the end of 2022, Lizhou District had a resident population of 625,000 people. As of June 2023, Lizhou District has 7 streets, 5 towns and 3 townships under its jurisdiction, with the district people's government stationed at No. 745 East Lizhou Road, Dongba Street.
Lizhou district for the ancient tho tribe of the land, the Western Zhou belongs to the Ba State, the Spring and Autumn belongs to the Shu State, the end of the Spring and Autumn belongs to the Tho Hou State, Qin belongs to the Shu County, Jiameng County, and thereafter belongs to the County of Guanghan, Yizhou, Liangzhou, Lizhou, Guangyuan, Bao'ningfu and other places of jurisdiction. During the Republican period, successively belongs to the Chuanbei Road, Jialing Road, the fourteenth administrative inspectorate jurisdiction. 1949, set Guangyuan County belongs to the Jiange Prefecture, and since then successively Guangyuan Special Department, Mianyang Special Department jurisdiction. 1985 February, the removal of Guangyuan County set the prefecture-level Guangyuan City, the original Guangyuan County was reorganized as the city of March 2007, the city of March, the city of District renamed the district of Lizhou.
Lizhou District is the hometown of Wu Zetian, the territory of Huangze Temple Cliff Statue, Guangyuan Thousand Buddha Cliff Cliff Statue, Jianmen Shudao site is a national key cultural relics protection units, is the provincial folk culture and art townships (Fengzhou art), white flower stone carving selected as a national intangible cultural heritage. The territory of Huangze Temple, Tianju Mountain Scenic Spot, Thousand Buddha Cliff, Fangxiang Nanshan Scenic Spot 4 scenic spots for the national AAAA level tourist attractions.
In 2022, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Lizhou District was 38.472 billion yuan, an increase of -0.6% over the previous year. The proportion of the three industries in GDP was adjusted from 4.6:47.0:48.4 last year to 4.9:46.0:49.1, pulling economic growth by 0.2, -2.1 and 1.3 percentage points respectively.