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Quanzhou City is located in the Southeast of Fujian Province, which is to the west coast of Taiwan Channel. The city covers 11015 square meters, with the population of 6.54million (excluding Jinmeng County). Being built in 718 A.D., Quanzhou has a long history of around a thousand years. In 1985, the State Department upgraded Quanzhou Municipal Government to a higher rank in the policital system administrating its subordinative counties and inferior cities such as Licheng District, Fengze District, Luojiang District, Jinjiang City, Shishi City, Nanan City, Huian County, Anxi County, Yongchun County, Dehua County, Jinmeng County (to be unified) as well as Xiaocuo Administrative Committee and Qingmeng Administrative Committee.

Quanzhou is the starting point of the "Silk Route on the Sea", it had once been very prosperous both in overseas communications and foreign trades. In Song and Yuan Dynasties, Quanzhou Harbour had once been one of the largest harbours in the