This is Lishui
Lishui, East China's Zhejiang province [Photo by Shu Qiaomin provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Population: 2,701,900 registered residents (2018)
Location: southwest of Zhejiang province
Area: 17,300 square kilometers
Economy:
In 2018, Lishui recorded a GDP of 139.47 billion yuan ($20.25 billion), a year-on-year increase of 8.2 percent. The added value of its primary industries was 94.16 billion yuan, up year-on-year by 3.1 percent; secondary industries accounted for 57.78 billion yuan, rising by 9 percent and tertiary industries reached 72.27 billion yuan, a growth of 8.1 percent over than that of 2017. The ratio of the three industries is at 6.8:41.4:51.8. The 63,611 yuan of per capita GDP in 2018 was 7.3 percent higher than that of 2017.
Administrative divisions:
Lishui governs a district - Liandu district, seven counties – namely Qingtian, Jinyun, Suichang, Songyang, Yunhe, Qingyuan and Jingning, and a county-level city, Longquan. Among these counties, Jingning is the only She Ethnic Minority Autonomous County in the country and the only minority autonomous county in East China.
The city consisted of 53 towns, 90 townships, 30 sub-districts, 112 communities and 2,725 administrative villages in 2018.
Brief introduction:
Lishui, the largest prefecture-level city in Zhejiang province is blessed with a superior and unique ecological environment. It enjoys dense mountains with 80.79 percent coverage and ranks second in China for lofty heights, as there are 3,573 peaks with an altitude above 1,000 meters, among which the 1,929-meter-high Huangmaojian Peak of Fengyang Mountain is the highest peak in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Lishui is also renowned for the quality of its water. It's the source of six rivers, namely the Oujiang River, Qiantang River, Feiyun River, Jiaojiang River, Minjiang River and Saijiang River, where the water quality ranks first in Zhejiang. Lishui also boasts fresh air. It is the only non-coastal and low altitude city among the top 10 national air quality cities. Its ecological index has been the highest in Zhejiang for the past 13 years, and the public satisfaction index towards its ecological environment has been the highest in Zhejiang for the past nine years; the combined index of ecological civilization ranks first in Zhejiang province.
