Qujing City, Yunnan Province, prefecture-level city, is located in the eastern part of Yunnan Province, at the source of the Pearl River, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi provinces and regions at the junction of the east and Guizhou Xingyi City, Liupanshui City, adjacent to the south and Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture bordering the west of Kunming City, the north of Zhaotong City, known as the "Dian-Guizhou lock and key", It is known as "the key to Yunnan-Guizhou" and "the throat of Yunnan", 120 kilometers away from Kunming, the provincial capital, with an area of 28,900 square kilometers, accounting for 13.63% of the area of Yunnan Province. As of 2022, Qujing has 1 city, 3 districts and 5 counties under its jurisdiction, with a built-up area of 1,035,000 square kilometers.2023 In April 2023, the Yunnan Provincial Bureau of Statistics released the Yunnan Provincial Resident Population Main Data Bulletin of 2022, which shows that Qujing has a resident population of 5,756,000, with an urbanization rate of 50.56%.
Qujing is located in the Wumeng Mountains in the transition zone from the East Yunnan Plateau to the West Guizhou Plateau in the central part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, embedded in the Lake Basin area of the Central Yunnan Plateau in the west, and tilting towards the Guizhou Plateau in the east, and in the central part of the city is the watershed zone of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, with a high topography in the northwest and a low topography in the southeast, and with the distinctive languages, costumes, customs and beliefs of eight ethnic groups, such as Yi, Bouyi, Zhuang, Miao, Yao, etc. Qujing is one of the "national" cities in Yunnan Province, with an urbanization rate of 50.5 percent.
Qujing is an important node of the national "One Belt, One Road" initiative, the Yangtze River Economic Belt strategy, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the construction of Yunnan as a radiation center for South Asia and Southeast Asia, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle radiation-driven area, the core area of the central Yunnan city cluster, and a national comprehensive transportation hub and regional-level distribution node. It is a national comprehensive transportation hub and regional circulation node city, and the vice-center city of Yunnan Province. Qujing has been on the list of "China's Top Ten Livable Cities" for six times, won the titles of National Ecological Garden City and National Sanitary City, listed as one of the first batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new-type urbanization, and awarded the titles of National Forest City and National Garden City; In 2023, Qujing's GDP will be 404.891 billion yuan, an increase of 7.5% over the previous year at constant prices.