Zoucheng is in the southwest of Shandong province,called Zoulu holy land.It is the hometown of mencius, a great thinker and educationist in ancient China.It`s known as the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, the birthplace of China's culture. The total area of Zoucheng city is 1616 square kilometers,and the total population of Zoucheng city is 1.2 million.It has jurisdiction over 13 towns, 3 streets and 2 provincial-level economic development zones.Now it is a national historic and cultural city, an excellent tourist city in China, one of the comprehensive strength hundred counties (cities), and a nominated city of national civilized city,National Forest City.
Zoucheng is the origin and flouring place of Confucian culture,with 6000 years of humanistic history. Many famous historical and cultural celebrities were born here, such as the founder of Confucianism, Confucius and Mencius, Mencius's mother , known as the epitome of maternal devotion and love, and Kuangheng, the great economist.There are 517 non-movable cultural relics in the city, including 95 cultural relics protection units at all levels, and more than 120,000 sets of movable cultural relics in various museum collections.Zoucheng has rich energy resources and solid industrial base, in which Yankuang Group and Zouxian Power Plant are located, with an annual output of more than 20 million tons of raw coal and an annual generating capacity of 31 billion kWh. In 2017, the regional GDP reached 95 billion RMB, fixed asset investment was 53.1 billion RMB, and general public budget revenue was 7.513 billion RMB. Zoucheng has beautiful natural scenery and numerous cultural landscapes, integrating famous mountains,rivers and lakes as well as old city. There are 17 national class 4A and 3A tourist spots. Mountain Yi, a famous historical and cultural mountain, enjoys great prestige as “a southern wonder to Mountain Tai”, and“elegant scenery of Kingdom Lu and Zou”.A large ancient architectural complex, Mencius Mansion and Mencius Temple, embodies extensive and profound Mencius thoughts. Luwang Tombs during Ming Dynasty is the largest underground royal palace between southern place of Bejing and northern one of Changjiang river.
