Bo (bo) Prefecture, referred to as Bo, known as "Qiao City" in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province. Bozhou is a national historical and cultural city. There have been human activities here since the Neolithic Age. It is one of the birthplaces of the ancient culture of the Chinese nation. Yanhuang era, the emperor emperor ku (son of the yellow emperor) generation ZhuanXu for emperor, to recommend her. Shang Cheng Tang destroyed the Xia and established the Shang Dynasty, which was established in Bo for 190 years. Since Qiao County in Qin Dynasty, through the change of dynasties, mostly state, county or county system, during the two years of Wei Huang (221), Qiao County as the "secondary capital". In the 15th year from Yuan to Zheng (1355), Liu Futong proclaimed Han Liner emperor in Bozhou and established the "Song" regime. With Bozhou as his capital, Bozhou officially became the ancient capital of "Three Dynasties". It covers an area of 8,522.58 square kilometers. As of November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Bozhou City is 4,996,844.

Bozhou has jurisdiction over Guoyang, Mengcheng, Lixin and Qiao Cheng three counties and one district, among which Qiao Cheng District is the seat of the municipal Party committee and the municipal government. The planned area of the central urban area has expanded to 218 square kilometers, and the average annual growth rate of the urbanization rate ranks first in Anhui Province. By 2022, the built-up area of Bozhou central urban area is about 160 square kilometers.

Bozhou has ten industries, including modern Chinese medicine, liquor, food manufacturing and agricultural product processing, automobiles and spare parts, cultural tourism, coal chemical industry and new energy, electronic information, modern service industry, strategic emerging industry and labor-intensive equipment manufacturing.

Bozhou is the bridgehead connecting the Yangtze River Delta world-class urban agglomeration in the Central Plains. It is an excellent tourist city in China, a member city of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, the capital of traditional Chinese medicine in the world, and half of the top 100 pharmaceutical enterprises have been located in Bozhou. Bozhou is the world's largest distribution center and price formation center of Chinese medicinal materials. Northern Anhui tourism center city and provincial intersection center city. Central Plains urban agglomeration core development area. In August 2020, the Office of the National Dual-Support Work Leading Group awarded Bozhou the title of "National Dual-Support Model City". In 2021, the GDP of Bozhou was 19727 billion yuan, with per capita GDP of 39,509 yuan.