Overview

Luzhou Prefecture, a city of Sichuan Province, is located on the southeastern part of Sichuan Province where Sichuan Province connects with Chongqing Prefecture, Guizhou Province and Yunnan Province. Luzhou enjoys important position as it guards the strategic point of Yangtze River and Tuojiang River, and it is also at the communication center of Yunnan Province, Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province and Chongqing Prefecture. Luzhou is a big modern city in Sichuan Province with seven counties and districts under its jurisdiction. Luzhou Prefecture covers an area of 12243 square kilometers with a population of more than 4,500,000 people.

Luzhou is a newly emerging city with advanced agriculture and rich resources. The pillar industries like chemical industry, machinery, wine-making industry and medical industry compose the main body of industries of this city.

Luzhou enjoys great reputation as the wine city in China for the famous Luzhou Laojiao Liquor and Gulin Lang Liquor which are produced here. Luzhou is the only city in China that possesses two kinds of national famous liquor. The annual yield of liquor in Luzhou is about 86300 tons including 10805 tons of national famous liquor. Luzhou boasts of a history of 400 years of wine brewing.

Luzhou Prefecture is abundant in Chinese herbal medicine. There are about 1144 species of medical resources and 174 families of medicinal plants here. Luzhou has a long history of producing prepared Chinese medicine for over 200 years. The Rheumatism Liquid produced by Luzhou Baoguang Pharmaceutical Industry Company Limited wins the national golden reward. It is a national name brand and the supply always falls short of demand.

The agriculture develops quite well in Luzhou. It is the main producing region of famous fruits, such as litchi and longan in China. Here is also a provincial and national producing base of grain, pigs, cattle, sheep and bamboos. At present, the process of agricultural industrialization boost at unprecedented speed.

Luzhou is a famous city for its long history and splendid culture. It is a national model city, which support the army and give preferential treatment to families of revolutionary army men and martyrs, and support the government and cherish the people. It is also the national sanitation city. The climate is mild and pleasant, the scenery is beautiful. Huangjing Scenic Spot of Gulin County and Fobao Scenic Spot of Hejiang County are the only two virgin forests scenic areas at the same latitude on the earth. Numerous historic, cultural relics and special scenic spots attract more and more tourists from home and abroad now.