Ganzhou city is a national historical culture city, a national outstanding tourism city, national sanitary city, national model city in public security comprehensive administration, afforestation and culture, one of the first garden cities in Jiangxi province. The city has an area of thirty-nine thousand four hundred square kilometers, population of eight million three hundred twenty bhousand, ranking one fourth and one fifth of Jiangxi province’s total respectively. It has Zhanggong district, Ruijing city, Nankang city; fifteen counties—Gan county, Yudu, Xinfeng, Dayu, Ningdu, Xingguo, longnan, Quannan, Dingnan, Anyuan, Huichang, Xunwu, Shangyou, Congyi, Shicheng and one economic technology developing area under its jurisdiction.

    Ganzhou is former red capital, the cradle of the Peple’s Republic. The site of the Chinese soviet interim central government—Ruiji, the well-Ruiji, the well-known General county—Xingguo and the starting point of the world famous Twenty-five Kilometer long March are all within Ganzhou boundary.

    Ganzhou is cradle of Hakka custom and culture. It is the biggest gathering place of hakka people with90%of the whole population all over the world living here. It’s also the first settlement and the earliest transfer station for the hakka people immigrating to the south.