Quanzhou

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Quanzhou is a prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, People's Republic of China.Template:Efn It is Fujian's largest most populous metropolitan region, with an area of Template:Convert and a population of 8,782,285 as of the 2020 census. Its built-up area is home to 6,669,711 inhabitants, encompassing the Licheng, Fengze, and Luojiang urban districts; Jinjiang, Nan'an, and Shishi cities; Hui'an County; and the Quanzhou District for Taiwanese Investment. Quanzhou was China's 12th-largest extended metropolitan area in 2010.

Quanzhou was China's major port for foreign traders, who knew it as Zaiton,Template:Efn during the 11th through 14th centuries. It was visited by both Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta; both travelers praised it as one of the most prosperous and glorious cities in the world. It was the naval base from which the Mongol attacks on Japan and Java were primarily launched and a cosmopolitan center with Buddhist and Hindu temples, Islamic mosques, and Christian churches, including a Catholic cathedral and Franciscan friaries. A failed revolt prompted a massacre of the city's foreign communities in 1357. Economic dislocations—including piracy and an imperial overreaction to it during the Ming and Qing—reduced its prosperity, with Japanese trade shifting to Ningbo and Zhapu and other foreign trade restricted to Guangzhou. Quanzhou became an opium-smuggling center in the 19th century but the siltation of its harbor hindered trade by larger ships.

Because of its importance for medieval maritime commerce, unique mix of religious buildings, and extensive archeological remains, "Template:Ill" was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Names

Quanzhou (also known as Zayton or Zaiton in British and American historical sources) is the atonal pinyin romanization of the city's Chinese name {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, using its pronunciation in the Mandarin dialect. The name derives from the city's former status as the seat of the imperial Chinese Quan ("Spring") Prefecture. Ch'üan-chou was the Wade-Giles romanization of the same name;Template:Sfnp<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> other forms include Chwanchow-foo,Template:Sfnp Chwan-chau fu,<ref name="tts" /> Chwanchew,<ref name="tswansong" /> Ts'üan-chou,<ref name="ali" /> Tswanchow-foo,Template:Sfnp Tswanchau,<ref name="tswansong">Template:Harvp</ref> T'swan-chau fu,<ref name="tts" /> Ts'wan-chiu,<ref name="kanga">Template:Harvp</ref> Ts'wan-chow-fu,<ref name="gibb" /> Thsiouan-tchéou-fou,<ref name="tts" /> and Thsíouan-chéou-fou.Template:Sfnp The romanizations Chuan-chiu,<ref name="kanga" /> Choan-Chiu,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and ShanjuTemplate:Refn reflect the local Hokkien pronunciation.

The Postal Map name of the city was "Chinchew",<ref>Postal Atlas of China.</ref> an English variant of Chincheo, which is also the historical Spanish, Portuguese (and later also Dutch and French) name for the city. The exact etymon of the term is uncertain with multiple explanations on the matter. Historically, "Chincheo" or also "Chengchio" or "Chenchiu" was likely a name that originally referred to neighboring Zhangzhou, due to the name generally being used by European sailors to denote the Bay of Amoy and its hinterland, or even the whole Fujian province.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref> The confusion is also discussed by Charles R. Boxer (1953)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and the 1902 Encyclopedia<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in that it is apparently the transcription of the local Quanzhou Hokkien pronunciation of the name of Zhangzhou,<ref name=":0" />Template:Efn Quanzhou Hokkien Template:Lang-zh (IPA: /t͡ɕiɪŋ³³ t͡ɕiu³³/),Template:Efn the major Fujianese port in the 16th and 17th centuries, specifically the old port of Yuegang in Haicheng, Zhangzhou, trading with Spanish Manila and Portuguese Macao.Template:Sfnp It is uncertain when exactly and why Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and later also British and French sailors first applied the name to Quanzhou, but perhaps there were initially some confusion due to miscommunication on first language contact by European sailors with Hokkien speakers around the Bay of Amoy, which the term later stuck and continued due to the language barrier among Hokkien speakers and those who do not speak the language. Another by Duncan (1902) claims that it comes from a supposed previous "Tsuien-chow" Mandarin romanization<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> (Mandarin Template:Lang-zh; IPA: /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/). In the Chineesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek van het Emoi dialekt (1882), a Hokkien-Dutch Dictionary from Dutch Batavia (modern-day Jakarta) of the Dutch East Indies, the name of the Quanzhou dialect of Hokkien is transcribed as the "Tsin-tsiu dialekt".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It is uncertain which term they transcribed "Tsin-tsiu" from, specifically the first syllable, unless it was simply their attempt at giving a Hokkien term to explain the origins of "Chincheo". On that regard though, as part of Quanzhou prefecture and directly adjacent from the historic city of Quanzhou over the Jin River lies Jinjiang, called in Hokkien Template:Lang-zh; Tâi-lô: Tsìn-kang, which is now also a county-level city. The now county-level city of Jinjiang (Hokkien: Template:Lang-zh) has the exact same name in Hokkien as the Jin River (Hokkien: Template:Lang-zh; IPA: /t͡sin⁵⁵⁴ kaŋ³³/), directly in between the historic city of Quanzhou to its west and to the north of Jinjiang, which both the river and the county-level city got their name from the Jin dynasty (晉朝)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> from when the earliest Min-speaking Chinese settlers coming from the Min River area settled the banks of the Jin River around 284 AD.<ref name="Clark">Template:Cite book</ref> Zhou ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) or at least Hokkien Template:Lang-zh originally referred to alluvial islands in the middle of rivers or at the mouth of rivers,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> which can somewhat geographically describe the historic city of Quanzhou's geographic position in between the Jin River and the Luoyang River. Similarly, Zhangzhou (Template:Lang-zh) is also named with Hokkien Template:Lang-zh with Hokkien Template:Lang-zh referring to Hokkien Template:Lang-zh, which is the old name of the Jiulong River (Hokkien: Template:Lang-zh) that surrounds the historic city of Zhangzhou.

Its Arabic name Zaiton<ref name="midenc">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> or "Zayton"<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> (Template:Langx), once popular in English, means "[City] of Olives" and is a calque of Quanzhou's former Chinese epithet, Hokkien Template:Lang-zh or Mandarin Template:Lang-zh, which is derived from the avenues of tung oil-bearing tung trees ordered to be planted around the city by the city's 10th-century ruler Liu Congxiao.<ref name="oiltree">Template:Harvp</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Variant transcriptions from the Arabic name include Caiton,<ref name=sayton>Template:Harvp</ref> Çaiton,<ref name=sayton/> Çayton,<ref name=sayton/> Zaytún,<ref name="gibb">Template:Harvp</ref> Zaitûn,Template:Sfnp Zaitún,<ref name="tts" /> and Zaitūn.<ref name="oiltree" /> The etymology of satin derives from "Zaitun".Template:Refn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Geography

Quanzhou proper lies on a split of land between the estuaries of the Jin River and Luoyang River as they flow into Template:Ill on the Taiwan Strait. Its surrounding prefecture extends west halfway across the province and is hilly and mountainous. Along with Xiamen and Zhangzhou to its south and Putian to its north, it makes up Fujian Province's Southern Coast region. In its mountainous interior, it borders Longyan to the southwest and Sanming to the northwest.

Climate

The city features a humid subtropical climate. Quanzhou has four distinct seasons. Its moderate temperature ranges from 0 to 38 degrees Celsius. In summer, there are typhoons that bring rain and some damage to the city.

Earthquakes

Major earthquakes have been experienced in 1394<ref>{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}Template:Full citation needed</ref> and on 29 December 1604.<ref>{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}Template:Full citation needed</ref>

History

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Mount Qingyuan Laozi

Early history

Template:Ill ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) used the area as a base of operations for the Chen State before he was subdued by the Sui general Yang Su in the ADTemplate:Nbsp590s.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Quanzhou proper was established under the Tang in 718<ref name="midenc" /> on a spit of land between two branches of the Jin River.Template:Sfnp Muslim traders reached the city early on in its existence, along with their existing trade at Guangzhou and Yangzhou.<ref>Template:Harvp</ref>

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

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Map of Qingyuan Circuit

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Map showing the location of Qingyuan Circuit

In the early period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Quanzhou was a part of Min state. After Min was destroyed by the Southern Tang, the Qingyuan Circuit rose up in the original southern territory of Min. The Qingyuan Circuit was a de facto independent entity that lasted 29 years (949–978) with 4 rulers. Its territory included present-day southern Fujian and Putian, with Quanzhou as its capital. Its founder, Liu Congxiao, the Prince of Jinjiang and Jiedushi (military governor) of Qingyuan Circuit, vigorously expanded overseas trade and city development. Erythrina trees were planted throughout Quanzhou city, so Quanzhou was called Erythrina City.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 964, the circuit was renamed the Pinghai Circuit. In 978, Chen Hongjin, the Jiedushi of Pinghai Circuit, was forced to surrender to the Northern Song to avoid war and ravage.<ref>风雨江山三百年：两宋白话史</ref>

Song dynasty

Already connected to inland Fujian by roads and canals, Quanzhou grew to international importance in the first century of the Northern Song.<ref name="ehc">Template:Cite book</ref> It received an office of the maritime trade bureau (shibosi, 市舶司) in 1079<ref>Template:Cite book Template:In lang</ref> or 1087<ref name="midenc" />Template:Sfnp and functioned as the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road into the Yuan, eclipsing both the overland trade routes<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and Guangzhou. A 1095 inscription records two convoys, each of twenty ships, arriving from the Southern Seas each year.<ref name="ehc" /> Quanzhou's maritime trade developed the area's ceramics, sugar, alcohol, and salt industries.<ref name="ehc" /> Ninety per cent of Fujian's ceramic production at the time was jade-colored celadon, produced for export.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Frankincense was such a coveted import that promotions for the trade superintendents at Guangzhou and Quanzhou were tied to the amount they were able to bring in during their terms in office.<ref>Template:Harvp</ref> During this period it was one of the world's largest and most cosmopolitan seaports.Template:Efn By 1120, its prefecture claimed a population of around 500,000.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Its Luoyang Bridge was formerly the most celebrated bridge in ChinaTemplate:Sfnp and the 12th century Anping Bridge is also well known.

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Trade routes in Southeast Asia during Quanzhou's heyday.

Quanzhou initially continued to thrive under the Southern Song. A 1206 report listed merchants from Arabia, Iran, the Indian subcontinent, Sumatra, Cambodia, Brunei, Java, Champa, Burma, Anatolia, Korea, Japan and the city-states of the Philippines.<ref name="ehc" /> One of its customs inspectors, Zhao Rugua, completed his compendious Description of Barbarian Nations Template:Circa, recording the people, places, and items involved in China's foreign trade in his age. Other imperial records from the time use it as the zero mile for distances between China and foreign countries.<ref name="kamikaze" /> Tamil merchants carved idols of Vishnu and Shiva<ref name="vader">Template:Cite book</ref> and constructed Hindu temples in Quanzhou.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref> Over the course of the 13th century, however, Quanzhou's prosperity declined due to instability among its trading partners<ref name="ehc" /> and increasing restrictions introduced by the Southern Song in an attempt to restrict the outflow of copper and bronze currency from areas forced to use hyperinflating paper money.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The increasing importance of Japan to China's foreign trade also benefited Ningbonese merchants at Quanzhou's expense, given their extensive contacts with Japan's major ports on Hakata Bay on Kyushu.<ref name="ehc" />

Yuan dynasty

In 1277 under the Mongolian Yuan dynasty a superintendent of foreign trade was established in the city.<ref name="goff">Template:Cite book</ref> The superintendent Pu Shougeng was Muslim<ref name="goff2">Template:Cite book</ref> and used his contacts to restore the city's trade under its new rulers.<ref name="goff" /> He was broadly successful, restoring much of the port's former greatness.Template:Sfnp His office became hereditary to his descendants.<ref name="goff" />

Into the 1280s Quanzhou sometimes served as the provincial capital for Fujian.<ref name="ali" />Template:Efn Its population was around 455,000 in 1283, the major items of trade being pepper and other spices, gemstones, pearls, and porcelain.<ref name="midenc" />

Marco Polo recorded that the Yuan emperors derived "a vast revenue" from their 10 percent duty on the port's commerce;<ref name="secondbest" /> he called Quanzhou's port "one of the two greatest havens in the world for commerce"<ref name="secondbest" /> and "the Alexandria of the East".<ref name="cnn">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ibn Battuta simply called it the greatest port in the world.<ref name="ali">Template:Harvp</ref>Template:Efn Polo noted its tattoo artists were famed throughout Southeast Asia.<ref name="secondbest">Template:Harvp</ref> It was the point of departure for Marco Polo's 1292 return expedition, escorting the 17-year-old Mongolian princess Kököchin to her fiancé in the Persian Ilkhanate;Template:Sfnp a few decades later, it was the point of arrival and departure for Ibn Battuta.<ref name="gibb" /><ref name="kamikaze" />Template:Efn Kublai Khan's invasions of Japan<ref name="midenc" /><ref name="kamikaze">Template:Harvp</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and Java sailed primarily from its port.<ref name="chengho">Template:Cite book</ref> The Islamic geographer Abulfeda noted, in Template:Circa, that its city walls remained ruined from its conquest by the Mongols.<ref name="tts">Template:Harvp</ref> In the mid-1320s Friar Odoric noted the town's two Franciscan friaries, but admitted the Buddhist monasteries were much larger, with over 3000 monks in one.<ref name="tts" />

Between 1357 and 1367 the Yisibaxi Muslim Persian garrison started the Ispah rebellion against the Yuan dynasty in Quanzhou and southern Fujian due to increasingly anti-Muslim laws. Persian militia leaders Template:Ill (賽甫丁) and Template:Ill (阿迷里丁) led the revolt. Arabic official Template:Ill (那兀纳) assassinated Amir ad-Din in 1362 and took control of the Muslim rebel forces. The Muslim rebels tried to strike north and took over some parts of Xinghua but were defeated at Fuzhou. Yuan provincial loyalist forces from Fuzhou defeated the Muslim rebels in 1367.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Sayf ad-Din and Amir ad-Din fought for Fuzhou and Xinghua for five years. They both were murdered by another Muslim called Nawuna in 1362 so he then took control of Quanzhou and the Ispah garrison for five more years until his defeat by the Yuan authorities.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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Zayton as imagined by a 15th-century European illustrator of The Travels of Marco Polo

Nawuna was killed in turn by Chen Youding. Chen began a campaign of persecution against the city's Sunni community—including massacres and grave desecration—that eventually became a three-days anti-foreign massacre. Emigrants fleeing the persecution rose to prominent positions throughout Southeast Asia, spurring the development of Islam on Java and elsewhere.<ref name="goff2" /> The Yuan were expelled in 1368,<ref name="midenc" /> and they turned against Pu Shougeng's family and the Muslims and slaughtered Pu Shougeng's descendants in the Ispah rebellion. Mosques and other buildings with foreign architecture were almost all destroyed and the Yuan imperial soldiers killed most of the descendants of Pu Shougeng and mutilated their corpses.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Ming and early Qing dynasties

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The Selden Map during the early 17th century, with Quanzhou as its trade route epicenter

The Ming discouraged foreign commerce other than formal tributary missions. By 1473 trade had declined to the point that Quanzhou was no longer the headquarters of the imperial customs service for Fujian.<ref name="kamikaze" /> The Wokou, who came from many different ethnicities, including Japanese, Korean, and Chinese, forced Quanzhou's Superintendency of Trade to close completely in 1522.<ref name="fopla">Template:Cite book</ref>

During the Qing dynasty the Sea Ban did not help the city's traders or fishermen. They were forced to abandon their access to the sea for years at a time and coastal farmers forced to relocate miles inland to inner counties like Yongchun and Anxi. Violent large scale clan fights with the thousands of non-native families from Guangdong who were deported to Quanzhou city by the Qing immediately occurred.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

19th century to present day

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Reconstructed Linzhang Gate

In the 19th century, the city walls still protected a circuit of Template:Convert but embraced much vacant ground.Template:Sfnp The bay began to attract Jardines' and Dents' opium ships from 1832. Following the First Opium War, Governor Henry Pottinger proposed using Quanzhou as an official opium depot to keep the trade out of Hong Kong and the other treaty ports but the rents sought by the imperial commissioner Qiying were too high.<ref name="fopla" />

When Chinese pirates overran the receiving ships in Shenhu Bay to capture their stockpiles of silver bullion in 1847, however, the traders moved to Quanzhou Bay regardless.<ref name="fopla" /> Around 1862, a Protestant mission was set up in Quanzhou. As late as the middle of the century, large Chinese junks could still access the town easily, trading in tea, sugar, tobacco, porcelain, and nankeens,Template:Sfnp but sand bars created by the rivers around the town had generally incapacitated its harbor by the First World War. It remained a large and prosperous city, but conducted its maritime trade through Anhai.Template:Sfnp

After the Chinese Civil War, Kinmen became disconnected from Quanzhou with the Nationalists successfully defended Kinmen in battle from a Communist takeover attempt.

Administrative divisions

The prefecture-level city of Quanzhou administers four districts, three county-level cities, four counties, and two special economic districts. The People's Republic of China claims Kinmen Islands (Quemoy) (administered and also claimed by the Republic of China) as Kinmen County under the administration of Quanzhou.

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English Name	Simplified	Pinyin	POJ	Area (km2)	Population (2010)<ref name="Census-pop">Template:In lang Compilation by Lianxin website. Data from the Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China Template:Webarchive</ref><ref name="citypop">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Density (per km2)
Licheng District	lang}}	Lǐchéng Qū	Lí-siâⁿ-khu	52.41	404,817	7,724
Fengze District	lang}}	Fēngzé Qū	Hong-te̍k-khu	132.25	529,640	4,005
Luojiang District	lang}}	Luòjiāng Qū	Lo̍k-kang-khu	381.72	187,189	490
Quangang District	lang}}	Quángǎng Qū	Chôan-káng-khu	306.03	313,539	1025
Shishi City	lang}}	Shíshī Shì	Chio̍h-sai-chhī	189.21	636,700	3,365
Jinjiang City	lang}}	Jìnjiāng Shì	Chìn-kang-chhī	721.64	1,986,447	2,753
Nan'an City	lang}}	Nán'ān Shì	Lâm-oaⁿ-chhī	2,035.11	1,418,451	697
Hui'an County	lang}}	Huì'ān Xiàn	Hūiⁿ-oaⁿ-kūiⁿ	762.19	944,231	1,239
Anxi County	lang}}	Ānxī Xiàn	An-khoe-kūiⁿ	2,983.07	977,435	328
Yongchun County	lang}}	Yǒngchūn Xiàn	Éng-chhun-kūiⁿ	1,445.8	452,217	313
Dehua County	lang}}	Déhuà Xiàn	Tek-hòe-kūiⁿ	2,209.48	277,867	126
Kinmen County *	lang}}	Jīnmén Xiàn	Kim-mn̂g-kūiⁿ	153.011	127,723	830

*Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China ("Mainland China") has claimed the Kinmen Islands (Quemoy) as part of Quanzhou but has never controlled them; they are administered by and also claimed by the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Demographics

As of the 2010 census, Quanzhou has a population of 8,128,530.<ref name="Census-pop" /> Its built-up area is home to 6,107,475 inhabitants, encompassing the Licheng, Fengze, and Luojiang urban districts; Jinjiang, Nan'an, and Shishi cities; Hui'an County; and the Quanzhou District for Taiwanese Investment.<ref name="citypop" />

Religion

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Qingjing Mosque

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Kaiyuan Temple, 2014

Template:See also Medieval Quanzhou was long one of the most cosmopolitan Chinese cities, with Chinese folk religious temples, Buddhist temples, Taoist temples and Hindu temples; Islamic mosques; and Christian churches, including Nestorian and a cathedral (financed by a rich Armenian lady) and two Franciscan friaries. Andrew of Perugia served as the Roman Catholic bishop of the city from 1322.<ref name="tts" /> Odoric of Pordenone was responsible for relocating the relics of the four Franciscans martyred at Thane in India in 1321 to the mission in Quanzhou.<ref name="midenc" /> English Presbyterian missionaries raised a chapel around 1862.Template:Sfnp The Qingjing Mosque dates to 1009 but is now preserved as a museum.<ref name="cnn" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Buddhist Kaiyuan Temple has been repeatedly rebuilt but includes two 5-story 13th-century pagodas.<ref name="cnn" /> Among the most popular folk or Taoist memorial hall is Guan Yue Memorial Hall ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) that is dedicated to Lord Yue and famous Lord Guan, who is honored for his righteousness and the spirit of brotherhood.<ref name="cnn" /> Jinjiang also preserves the Cao'an monastery ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), originally constructed by Manicheans under the Yuan but now used by New Age spiritualists, and a Confucian Memorial Hall ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, Wenmiao).<ref name="cnn" />

Language

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Locals speak the Quanzhou dialect of Hokkien (Min Nan) partly the same as the Amoy dialect spoken in Xiamen, and similar to Malaysian Hokkien, Singaporean Hokkien, Philippine Hokkien, and Quanzhou-descended Taiwanese dialects. It is unintelligible with Mandarin. Many overseas Chinese whose ancestors came from the Quanzhou area, especially those in Southeast Asia, often speak mainly Hokkien at home. Around the "Southern Min triangle area," which includes Quanzhou, Xiamen and Zhangzhou, locals all speak the Hokkien language. The dialects of Hokkien itself that they speak are similar but have different tones and sometimes different pronunciation and vocabulary.

Emigration

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New housing developments near the city center

Quanzhou has been a source for Chinese emigration to Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Some of these communities date to Quanzhou's heyday a millennium ago under the Song and Yuan dynasties.Template:Sfnp About 6 million overseas Chinese trace their ancestry to Quanzhou and Tong'an county. Most of them live in Southeast Asia, including Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Thailand.

Economy

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Quanzhou's Sunwu Creek

Historically Quanzhou exported black tea, camphor, sugar, indigo, tobacco, ceramics, cloth made of grass, and minerals. As of 1832 Quanzhou imported, primarily from Guangzhou, wool cloth, wine, and watches. The East India Company was exporting an estimated £150,000 a year in black tea from Quanzhou.<ref name=Roberts1>Template:Cite book</ref>

Today Quanzhou is a major exporter of agricultural products such as tea, banana, lychee, and rice. It is also a major producer of quarry granite and ceramics. Other industries include textiles, footwear, fashion and apparel, packaging, machinery, paper and petrochemicals.<ref>Quanzhou, Fujian. InJ. R. Logan (Ed.), The new Chinese city: Globalization and market reform (pp. 227–245). Oxford: Blackwell</ref>

Its GDP ranked first in Fujian Province for 20 years from 1991 to 2010. In 2008 Quanzhou's textile and apparel production accounted for 10 percent of China's overall apparel production, stone exports account for 50 percent of Chinese stone exports, resin handicraft exports account for 70 percent of the country's total, ceramic exports account for 67 percent of the country's total, candy production accounts for 20 percent, and the production of sport and tourism shoes accounts for 80% of Chinese, and 20 percent of world production.

Quanzhou is known today as China's shoe city. Quanzhou's 3,000 shoe factories produce 500 million pairs a year, making nearly one in every four pairs of sneakers made in China.

Cars

Quanzhou is the biggest automotive market in Fujian. It has the highest rate of private automobile possession.<ref>KFC, McDonald's to Open Drive-in Restaurants in Quanzhou SinoCast China Business Daily News. London (UK): 23 August 2007. pg. 1</ref> Quanzhou is connected by major roads from Fuzhou to the north and Xiamen to the south.

Transport

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Quanzhou Jinjiang International Airport

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North Yingbin Avenue (G24) in Quanzhou

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Buses in Quanzhou

Quanzhou is an important transport hub within southeastern Fujian province. Many export industries in the Fujian interior cities will transport goods to Quanzhou ports. Quanzhou Port was one of the most prosperous port in Tang dynasty and is now still an important Chinese port for exporting.

There is a passenger ferry terminal in Shijing, Nan'an, Fujian, with regular service to the Shuitou Port in the ROC-controlled Kinmen Island.

Airport

Quanzhou Jinjiang International Airport is Quanzhou's sole airport, served by passenger flights within mainland China and other regional/international destinations throughout southeast Asia, including Hong Kong, Macau, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok etc. Major airlines operated in JJN are Xiamen Air, Shenzhen Airlines and West Air.

Railway

The Zhangping–Quanzhou–Xiaocuo railway connects several cargo stations within Quanzhou Prefecture with the interior of Fujian and the rest of the country. Until 2014 this line also had passenger service, with fairly slow passenger trains from Beijing.

Passenger trains from China terminated at the Quanzhou East Railway Station, a few kilometers northeast of the center of the city. Passenger service on this line was terminated, and Quanzhou East railway station closed 9 December 2014.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Since 2010 Quanzhou is served by the high-speed Fuzhou–Xiamen railway, part of the Hangzhou–Fuzhou–Shenzhen high-speed railway, which runs along China's southeastern sea coast. High-speed trains on this line stop at Quanzhou railway station (in Beifeng Subdistrict of Fengze District, some 10 miles north of Quanzhou city center) and Jinjiang railway station. Trains to Xiamen take under 45 minutes, making it a convenient weekend or day trip. By 2015 direct high-speed service has become available to a number of cities in the country's interior, from Beijing to Chongqing and Guiyang.

Long-distance bus

Long-distance bus services also run daily/nightly to Shenzhen and other major cities. Quanzhou bus station operated from 1990 to 2020.

Colleges and universities

Colleges and universities with Undergraduate education:

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• Second School of Clinical Medicine, Fujian Medical University (public)
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Culture

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Shisun Park

Quanzhou is listed as one of the 24 famous historic cultural cities first approved by the Chinese government. Notable cultural practices include:

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• Quanzhou Shaolin Five Ancestors Fist ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})
• Yongchun martial arts

The city hosted the Sixth National Peasants' Games in 2008. Signature local dishes include rice dumplings and oyster omelettes.<ref name="cnn" />

Notable Historical and cultural sites (the 18 views of Quanzhou as recommended by the Fujian tourism board) include the Ashab Mosque and Kaiyuan Temple mentioned above, as well as:

• Qing Yuan mountain ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – The tallest hill within the city limits, which hosts a great view of West lake.
• East Lake Park ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – Located in the city center. It is home to a small zoo.
• West Lake Park ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – The largest body of fresh water within the city limits.
• Scholar Street ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) – Champion street about 500 meters long, elegant environment, mainly engaged in tourism and cultural crafts.

Notable Modern cultural sites include:

• Fengze Square – Located in the city center and acts as a venue for shows and events.
• Dapingshan – The second tallest hill within the city limits, crowned with an enormous equestrian statue of Zheng Chenggong.
• The Embassy Lounge – Situated in the "1916 Cultural Ideas Zone" which acts as a platform for mixing traditional Chinese art with modern building techniques and designs<ref>The Embassy Lounge Template:Webarchive</ref>

Relics from Quanzhou's past are preserved at the Maritime<ref name="cnn" /> or Overseas-Relations History Museum.<ref name=quan/> It includes large exhibits on Song-era ships and Yuan-era tombstones.<ref name="cnn" /> A particularly important exhibit is the so-called Quanzhou ship, a seagoing junk that sunk some time after 1272 and was recovered in 1973–74.<ref name=quan>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The old city center preserves "balcony buildings" (Template:Lang-zh), a style of southern Chinese architecture from the Republican Era.<ref name="cnn" />

Notable residents

• Li Nu, merchant and scholar<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref name="Chen">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Zhang Wenyu, nuclear physicist born in Hui'an.<ref name="shark">Template:Cite news</ref> He was also a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Lin Junde, explosion mechanics scientist born in Yongchun in Quanzhou.
• Xie Xide, physicist born in Shishi, president of Fudan University
• Guo Guangcan, quantum physicist born in Hui'an.
• Yao Chen, actress born in Shishi in Quanzhou.

Villages

• Xunpu

Gallery

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  Quanzhou Tianhou Temple

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  Quanzhou Zhenwu Temple

General and cited references

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Further reading

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External links

• The Stones of Zayton speak from China Heritage Newsletter