Quanzhou Quanzhou is a prefecture-level city under Fujian Province. Also known as Licheng (the map of the city is like carp), Erythrina City (it is said that Erythrina trees were everywhere in ancient times) and Wenling, it is located in the southeast of Fujian, facing Taiwan Province Province across the sea. It is the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road, one of the first 24 historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council, and it was known as "Zou Lu by the Sea" in ancient times. Quanzhou, located in the southeast of Fujian Province, is one of the three major central cities in Fujian, ranking first in the province in terms of economic aggregate for 10 years, and is the economic center of Fujian Province. It has jurisdiction over four districts of Licheng, Fengze, Luojiang and Quangang, three county-level cities of Jinjiang, Shishi and Nan 'an, five counties of Hui 'an, Anxi, Yongchun, Dehua and Jinmen (to be unified), and Quanzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone. Quanzhou is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and the main ancestral home of compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. At present, there are 6.24 million overseas Chinese living in Quanzhou and 700,000 compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao. In Taiwan Province Province, 44.8% of Han compatriots (about 9 million people) come from Quanzhou. Since the 1990s, Quanzhou's industry has developed rapidly, and its output value ranks first in the province, forming a number of influential industrial clusters in China, such as Jinjiang shoes, Jinjiang ceramics, Jinjiang clothing, Shishi clothing, Anxi tea, Dehua ceramics, Nan 'an plumbing, Huian stone carving and Quangang petrochemical.