Stunning night view of Jinhua city. [Photo by Hong Bing provided to ezhejiang.gov.cn]
Jinhua – located in East China's Zhejiang province – was known as Wuzhou in ancient times and the city has long featured in the annals of antiquity and is known as "a land of history and culture".
Its rice-farming civilization stretches back more than 10,000 years and had its first government more than 2,200 years ago when Wushuang county was established in the current city limits during the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC).
Jinhua covers an area of 11,000 square kilometers and has a permanent population of 5.6 million. It has jurisdiction over two districts, Wucheng and Jindong. It also administers four county-level cities – Lanxi, Dongyang, Yiwu and Yongkang – as well as three counties, Pujiang, Wuyi and Pan'an.
It is one of the 27 major cities included in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration and it belongs to the third largest city group and the fourth largest metropolitan area in Zhejiang province.
In 2023, the total GDP of the city was 601.13 billion yuan ($84.13 billion), up 6.8 percent year-on-year.
Last updated in January 2024
