Longyan

Longyan City, commonly known as Minxi, is a prefecture level city under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province. It is located at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi provinces in western Fujian. It is a famous revolutionary old area in China, the core area of the former Central Soviet Area, the hometown of the Red Army, and one of the important starting points of the Red Army's Long March. It enjoys the praise of "the Red Flag never falls for twenty years" and is also an important mining and forestry area in Fujian Province. It is the tourist area with the most Haixi brands and an important breeding and practice site for Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought. The total area is 19028 square kilometers. At the end of 2023, the permanent population of Longyan City was 2.693 million. As of June 2023, Longyan City has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts, 4 counties, and manages 1 county-level city. The Municipal People's Government is located at No. 1 Longyan Avenue, Longyan City.

Longyan City is the only prefecture level city in China named after the character "dragon", and the birthplace of the three most important rivers in Fujian Province - the Minjiang River, Jiulong River, and Tingjiang River. It was once a paradise for the "ancient Min people" in ancient times, the ancestral home of the "Minyue people" and the capital and central area of the "Nanhai country". It is a well-known Hakka ancestral land both at home and abroad, and one of the ancestral homes of the Heluo people. More than 75% of the population in Longyan are Hakka people. Longyan is a national experimental area for the protection of Hakka cultural ecology. Changting is known as the "capital of Hakka culture", Tingjiang is known as the "mother river of Hakka culture", and Yongding Hakka Tulou is listed in the World Cultural Heritage List. Hakka culture and Minnan culture blend here, nurturing the unique qualities of Longyan people, such as hospitality, diligence, and exploration.

Longyan City is a national gold and copper industry base, a national special vehicle and emergency industry production demonstration base, and a national new industrialization industry military civilian integration demonstration base. It has initially formed six major industries, including non-ferrous metals, machinery and equipment, cultural tourism and health care, new materials and new energy, digital technology, and characteristic modern agriculture. Gradually build Longyan into the western central city of the Taiwan Strait Economic Zone, an advanced manufacturing base, and an important red and Hakka cultural ecological city in the country.

In 2024, Longyan City achieved a regional GDP of 341.868 billion yuan, an increase of 5.0% over the previous year.