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Cities of the lower Yangtze interior and Fujian

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Anqing

Anqing (安庆), also called Yicheng, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Anhui, China, on the north bank of the lower Yangtze and Anhui's capital from 1760 to 1938.

Bozhou, Anhui

Bozhou (亳州市) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Anhui, China, established in 2000 with Qiaocheng District and Guoyang, Mengcheng, and Lixin counties; known as the World Capital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, hometown of Hua Tuo and Cao Cao, GDP 262.1 billion yuan in 2025.

Chizhou

Chizhou (池州) is a prefecture-level city in southwest Anhui, China, on the south bank of the Yangtze; founded 621 AD, a municipality since 2000, home to Jiuhua Mountain, 8,399 km², 1.324 million residents.

Fuding

Fuding (福鼎) is a county-level city in Ningde, Fujian Province, China, on the Zhejiang border, recognized as the birthplace and main production center of Fujian white tea.

Guixi

Guixi (贵溪市) is a county-level city under Yingtan, Jiangxi, China, founded as a county in 765 AD and made a city in 1996. Known as China's Copper Capital, it hosts Jiangxi Copper's Guixi Smelter, the world's largest, producing about 10 percent of China's electrolytic copper.

Huaibei

Huaibei (淮北) is a prefecture-level city in northern Anhui, China, founded 1960 as a coal city at the Jiangsu-Henan-Anhui junction. Area 2,741 km², GDP 141.9 billion yuan (2025), listed resource-exhausted since 2009 and transitioning beyond coal.

Huainan

Huainan (淮南) is a prefecture-level city on the Huaihe River in central-northern Anhui, China; 5,571 km², over 3 million people, a major coal-mining center with extensive subsidence areas, Huainanzi culture, and 44 A-level tourist attractions.

Jingdezhen

Jingdezhen (景德镇), Jiangxi, China's "Porcelain Capital," produced imperial and blue-and-white porcelain for over 1,000 years; its handicraft porcelain industry sites joined the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2026.

Jinjiang, Fujian

Jinjiang (晋江市), county-level city under Quanzhou, Fujian, on the Taiwan Strait; founded 718, city 1992. Top Fujian county economy 32 years, footwear-apparel hub, qiaoxiang with 3 million overseas, 5.3 nautical miles from Kinmen.

Ma’anshan, Anhui

Ma'anshan (马鞍山) is a prefecture-level steel city in eastern Anhui, China, on the Yangtze River bordering Nanjing. Founded 1956 around Ma'anshan Iron and Steel; 2.2 million people, GDP 278.5 billion yuan (2024); member of both Nanjing and Hefei metropolitan circles.

Mingguang, Anhui

Mingguang (明光市), formerly Jiashan County, is a county-level city of Chuzhou in northeastern Anhui, China, on the Jianghuai watershed. Created as a county in 1932, renamed 1994; 2020 population 485,627; 2024 GDP 32.15 billion yuan.

Nanping, Fujian

Nanping (南平), or Minbei, is Fujian's largest prefecture-level city by area (26,300 km²) at the Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi junction and Min River headwaters; its 2025 GDP was 218.97 billion yuan, and it hosts Wuyishan National Park.

Ningde

Ningde (宁德) is a prefecture-level city on northeastern Fujian's coast, seat at Jiaocheng, with 1,046 km of coastline, Sandu'ao deep-water port, the CATL lithium-battery cluster, China's top large yellow croaker fishery, and a fast-growing mountain-and-sea tourism economy.

Pengze

Pengze County (彭泽县) is a county of Jiujiang, Jiangxi, on the south bank of the Yangtze at the Anhui border. Founded 201 BC and named for the Pengli marsh, it is a historic cotton county with chemicals, building materials, and cotton spinning industries.

Putian

Putian (莆田市) is a prefecture-level city in central coastal Fujian, China; birthplace of Mazu, a National Historical and Cultural City, and a footwear and arts-and-crafts manufacturing hub with 3.18 million residents.

Sanming

Sanming (三明) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Fujian, China, formed in 1956-1960 around a heavy industry base. Known for 77.12% forest cover, the nationally promoted Sanming healthcare reform model, Hakka heritage, Shaxian snacks, and Taining Danxia geopark; 2025 GRP 251.2 billion yuan.

Shangrao

Shangrao (上饶) is a prefecture-level city in northeast Jiangxi, China, bordering Zhejiang, Fujian, and Anhui; 22,791 km², 6.49 million residents (2020), GDP 393.6 billion yuan (2025), home to UNESCO Mount Sanqingshan and Wuyuan.

Suzhou, Anhui

Suzhou, also written 宿州, is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Anhui Province, China, at the junction of Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Henan, distinguished from Jiangsu's larger Suzhou by its province name.

Tongling

Tongling (铜陵), Anhui's "Copper Capital," is a prefecture-level city on the lower Yangtze with 1.3 million residents, a 3,000-year copper mining history, and a resource-based economy in transition.

Wuhu

Wuhu (芜湖市), Anhui Province city on the Yangtze at the Qingyi River confluence; former treaty port and rice market, now Anhui's second-largest economy, home of Chery, GDP 512 billion yuan in 2024.

Xuancheng

Xuancheng (宣城市) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Anhui, China, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Known as China's only City of the Four Treasures of the Study, with 12,340 km², about 2.695 million registered residents, and 2025 GDP of 214.86 billion yuan.

Yichun, Jiangxi

Yichun (宜春) is a prefecture-level city in northwest Jiangxi, China, distinct from Yichun in Heilongjiang. It has about 6.1 million people, 18,700 km², Mingyue Mountain (5A), selenium hot springs at Wentang, and Zen Buddhist heritage.

Yingtan

Yingtan (鹰潭) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangxi, China, on the Xin River, known as the Copper Capital for its huge Guixi Smelter and for Longhu Mountain.