Briefly named Hong and as the seat of Jiangxi province, Nanchang has been recognized as the city with splendid resources, heavenly treasures, outstanding people and smart land. With more than 2200 years of history and profound cultural heritage, Nanchang is the State Historical and Cultural City as designated by the State Council of PRC. It is the birth place of the armed forces of the Communist Party of China. Nanchang is the largest industrial city in Jiangxi province with automobile making, metallurgy, electronic machinery, textile, chemical and pharmaceuticals as pillar industries. In 2008, Nanchang’s GDP amounted to RMB 166 billion, with a per capita GDP of RMB 18,387 against the permanent-resident population of 4.61 million.

With transportation convenience, Nanchang has been an important circulation city of commerce and trade historically with a concentration of merchants. It is not only a distribution center of consumer goods covering the whole province, but also a transfer hub for commerce and trade along the coastline areas, radiating to the central west region. The Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway and Anhui-Jiangxi Railway converge in Nanchang. It is the only provincial seat on the Beijing-Kowloon Railway line. In the sense of economics, Nanchang is an ideal area for gradient transfer of regional industries in the world and the developed areas along the east coast.