Lishui is a third-tier city. Lishui is located at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces in the southwest of Zhejiang Province, bordering Wenzhou in the southeast, Ningde and Nanping in the southwest, Quzhou in the northwest, Jinhua in the north and Taizhou in the northeast. It is 292km from Hangzhou, the provincial capital, 512km from Shanghai, 0/26km from Wenzhou and 0/22km from Jinhua. Total area 1.73 km2.

Lishui is an excellent tourist city in China, a national tourism demonstration zone, an international leisure and health city, a national garden city and a national civilized city. There are 2365 tourist resources in the city, including 353 excellent tourist resources and 22 4A-level scenic spots. Jinyun Xiandu Scenic Area has successfully established a national 5A-level tourist attraction.

Lishui city belongs to the mid-subtropical monsoon climate zone in climate division, which is close to the East China Sea and greatly influenced by the ocean, and has obvious mid-subtropical maritime monsoon climate. There are many hilly landforms on the terrain, and the three-dimensional climate characteristics in mountainous areas are obvious. The superposition of the mid-subtropical maritime monsoon climate and the three-dimensional climate in hilly areas has created a superior climate environment in Lishui, the hometown of climate health in China.