Jiangyou City, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, administered by Mianyang City, is located in the northern part of the Sichuan Basin and the northern end of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone. Its geographical coordinates lie between latitude 31°32′26″~32°19′18″ north and longitude 104°31′35″~105°17′30″ east, and it has a humid monsoon climate in the northern subtropics with hot summers and warm winters, with a total area of 2,719 square kilometers. As of the end of 2022, Jiangyou had a household population of 844,000 people. As of June 2023, Jiangyou City has 1 street, 22 towns and 1 township under its jurisdiction, with the municipal people's government stationed at No. 80, Shixian Road East, Zhongba Street.
Jiangyou City has a long history and a rich cultural heritage. According to the Ming "Record of Famous Places in Shu", "Jiangyou is the meaning of the river by the water". As one of the early human activity areas in China, the Dashuidong Ruins have unearthed stone tools and pottery shards from the Neolithic Age about 5,000 years ago. In the first year of Jianwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25th year), Deyang County was set up in present-day Yanmenba. on September 5, 1958, Jiangyou County and Changming County were merged to set up Jiangzhang County. on April 30, 1959, the name was changed to Jiangyou County. in February 1988, the county was abolished to establish a city.
Jiangyou City is the birthplace of Li Bai, the immortal poet, and there are 32 ruins and relics such as Longxi Yuan, Taibai Ancestral Hall, and Mill Needle Creek, etc. Comrade Deng Xiaoping inscribed "Li Bai's hometown" in his own handwriting, and it enjoys the reputation of "the hometown of poetry in China". It is the birthplace of Nezha culture, and there are now ruins and remains of "Nezha's Ancestral Court" such as Cuiping Mountain, Qianyuan Mountain, Jinguang Cave, and Chentang Pass. The gunpowder culture has a long history, and Laojunshan Nitrocave Ruins is the largest nitrocave ruins discovered in ancient China, and is known as the "hometown of gunpowder in China". There are 14 national and provincial cultural protection units such as Yunyan Temple and the only existing Song Dynasty Taoist scripture collection in China, and 4 national and provincial intangible cultural heritages such as Qinglinkou Gaoqiang Opera.
In 2022, Jiangyou will realize a GDP of RMB 60.131 billion, total retail sales of consumer goods of RMB 22.16 billion, local general public budget revenue of RMB 3.005 billion, per capita disposable income of urban residents of RMB 43,544, and per capita disposable income of rural residents of RMB 24,151.