Luzhou, known as "Jiangyang" in ancient times, also known as Jiucheng and Jiangcheng, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, a regional central city in China, a regional central city in the combination of Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan and Guizhou, a central city in the southern wing of Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, an important trade and logistics center, and an important port city in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. By the end of December 2020, the city has 126 township administrative districts, covering an area of 12,232.34 square kilometers. In 2021, the city has a permanent resident population of 4.259 million.

Luzhou is a famous national historical and cultural city with a history of more than two thousand years. In the Western Han Dynasty, the Marquis of Jiangyang was established. In the reign of Datong of Emperor Wudi of Liang, Luzhou was built. In the Song Dynasty, Luzhou was the capital of southwest China, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was one of the 33 commercial metropolitons in China. It has formed five characteristic tourism resources represented by famous wine culture, ecological culture, red culture, historical culture and Yangtze River culture. It has 14 national 4A level tourist attractions, 8 national 3A level tourist attractions and 10 national 2A level tourist attractions.

Luzhou is one of the seven regional central cities cultivated and expanded in Sichuan Province. It is the second largest container terminal in the middle and upper reaches of Yangtze River and the third largest airport in Sichuan Province. It is also the third batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization and cross-border e-commerce. It is a world-class liquor industry base, an important national food industry base with famous and fine wine as the main body, a recycling chemical industry base, a clean energy production base, a national high-tech industrialization base of high-performance hydraulic parts, and one of the nine national construction machinery production bases. Luzhou has won the United Nations Award for the Best Example of Improving Human Settlement Environment (Dubai Award), the Top 100 People's Livelihood Development of prefecture-level cities in China, the National Health City, the National Excellent Tourism City, the National Forest City, the National Garden City, the National civilized City, the National Water Ecological Civilization City and other honors.

In 2021, the GDP of Luzhou reached 240.608 billion yuan, an increase of 8.5% over the previous year based on comparable prices.