Guanghan City, county-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, administered by Deyang City. Anciently known as Hanzhou, alias Luo Cheng, is the first batch of Sichuan expanding the power of the county pilot counties (cities); 19 kilometers north of Deyang City, 20 kilometers south of downtown Chengdu, located in the northeast of the Chengdu Plain, the western foothills of the Longquan Mountain Range. Guanghan belongs to the middle subtropical humid climate zone of Sichuan Basin, with a total area of 548.69 square kilometers. As of December 2022, the city has nine towns and three streets under its jurisdiction. As of the end of 2022, the city had a resident population of 627,000, with an urbanization rate of 60.3%.
Guanghan County was established by Emperor Gao Di of the Western Han Dynasty, and was named after "the vastness of its territory, which extends to the Han River". Located in the core area of the hinterland of the "Land of Heavenly Capital", Guanghan is the northern gateway to Chengdu, which has been called "the gateway to Yizhou, the main thoroughfare of Shu Province, and the hole road to Beijing" since ancient times. The Sanxingdui Ruins in Guanghan are the ruins of ancient Shu culture about 5,000 to 3,000 years ago, which is known as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of mankind in the 20th century, indicating that the Yangtze River Basin, like the Yellow River Basin, belongs to the mother of the Chinese civilization, and it is known as "the source of the civilization of the Yangtze River". In Guanghan City, there are the national key cultural relics protection unit Luo Cheng and the ancient temple Longju Temple of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the Golden Goose Lake, Fanghu Park, Guanghan Literary Temple, Guanghan East Zen Temple, the ancient tomb cluster of the Han Dynasty, and the traditional folklore "Bao Bao Festival" which has been inherited for more than 300 years, etc. 2019 China's top 100 counties in Western China. 2019 Sichuan Province grain production "Harvest Cup".
In 2023, the GDP of Guanghan City will be 53.65 billion yuan, an increase of 6.0%.