Shuozhou, also known as Shuo and Ma Yi, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Shanxi Province, is located in the northern part of Shanxi Province, on the upper reaches of the Sanggan River, adjacent to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the northwest, with Yanmen Pass in the south, and the geomorphological profile is generally surrounded by mountains in the north, west, and south with high mountainous terrain, with the Sanggan River domain alluvial plain in the middle, which is relatively low, and has a temperate continental monsoon climate. As of February 2023, the city has two municipal districts, three counties, and one county-level city under its jurisdiction, with a total area of 10,600 square kilometers. As of the end of 2022, Shuozhou had a resident population of 1,590,700. In January 1989, the State Council approved the establishment of Shuozhou City. Shuozhou City is a new city born with the reform and opening up, and is the birthplace of Righteousness; it has a long history and rich humanities. Since ancient times, the Central Plains farming civilization and the grassland nomadic civilization collision and fusion. Within the territory of one of the world's three strange towers Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, the oldest existing Northern Qi Great Wall, relatively well-preserved 327 kilometers, the Great Wall of 10,000 miles and 10,000 miles of the ancient Tea and Horse Trail in the Righteousness to kill the tiger's mouth intersection. Many outstanding figures have emerged in history, such as Zhang Liao, a general of the Three Kingdoms, Yuchi Gong, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, Li Cunxin, the founding emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, Wang Jiapin, head of the Cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the national "Double Hundred Heroes" character, Li Lin, and Chen Rixin, a figure who has made outstanding contributions to reform and opening up. On the afternoon of January 29, 2024, the press office of Shuozhou Municipal Government held a press conference to introduce the economic operation of Shuozhou City in 2023. Preliminary accounting, the annual GDP of Shuozhou City was 153.94 billion yuan, which was calculated on the basis of the constant price and increased by 4.7% compared with the previous year, ranking the sixth in Shanxi Province. Sub-industry, the primary industry added value of 10.34 billion yuan, an increase of 4.7%; secondary industry added value of 72.66 billion yuan, an increase of 5.4%; tertiary industry added value of 70.94 billion yuan, an increase of 4.3%.