Qingyuan, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province and a city in the Guangzhou metropolitan area, has had its ancestors in this land since the Neolithic Age, creating a splendid prehistoric civilization. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent resident population of Qingyuan City was 3969473.

Qingyuan City is located at the junction of the Pearl River Delta, the middle and lower reaches of the Beijiang River, the southern side of the Nanling Mountains, and the central and northern part of Guangdong Province. The whole territory is located between 23 o 26 ′ 56 ″~25 o 11 ′ 40 ″ north latitude and 111 o 55 ′ 17 ″~113 o 55 ′ 34 ″ east longitude, connecting Guangzhou and Foshan City in the south, Hunan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the north, Shaoguan City in the east and northeast, and Zhaoqing City in the west and southwest; The distance between the north and the south is 190 kilometers, the distance between the east and the west is about 230 kilometers, and the boundary line is more than 1200 kilometers long. Qingyuan has a total land area of 19000 square kilometers, accounting for 10.6% of the total land area of the province, and is the largest prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province. Qingyuan City is the main inhabited area of ethnic minorities in Guangdong Province.

Qingyuan is an important part of Guangfu cultural regional plate. Guangfu culture is the mainstream of Qingyuan culture. Qingyuan and Guangfu cultural circle have a deep relationship in history, geography and ethnic groups. Qingyuan is close to Guangzhou, located in the middle and lower reaches of the Beijiang River on the northern edge of the Pearl River Delta, and in the central and northern part of Guangdong Province. Guangzhou helps Qingyuan and cooperates to build Guangzhou (Qingyuan) Industrial Park, which is the "strategic engine" for the two cities to complement each other's advantages and accelerate development, and is an important embodiment of the realization of "Guangzhou-Qingyuan integration".

In Qingyuan, He Dan, a doctor in the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Zhan, a prime minister in the Tang Dynasty, and Meng Binyu, a poet in the Southern Tang Dynasty, appeared successively. Cliff stone carvings in Qingyuan have a large quantity and high quality, as early as the Tang Dynasty and as late as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with a wide range of contents and colorful calligraphy, including the inscription of celebrities such as Han Yu, Zhou Dunyi and Su Shi.

In 2021, Qingyuan will achieve a GDP of 200745 billion yuan, an increase of 8.1% year on year.