Yunfu City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is located in the central and western part of Guangdong Province, with a land area of 7786.64 square kilometers (including 1967.28 square kilometers of urban area). By the end of 2021, the registered residence population of Yunfu City will be 3.0211 million; The permanent population is 2.3834 million, including 1.0433 million urban population. There are 494100 overseas Chinese, overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan with their ancestral home in Yunfu.

From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the pre-Qin period of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the territory of Yunfu today is Baiyue. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, three levels of construction were successively established in the city. In April 1994, the prefecture-level Yunfu City was established. As of October 2022, Yunfu City has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts and 2 counties, and is in charge of 1 county-level city. Yunfu City is an important node city in the Pearl River - Xijiang Economic Belt, which connects Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area in the east and Beibu Bay City Group in the west. Xijiang Golden Waterway runs through the whole territory, and Yunfu New Port is the largest inland port in Guangdong.

Yunfu City is one of the important concentration areas of polymetallic mineralization in China, where the reserves and grade of pyrite rank first in the world and is known as the "capital of sulfur". Yunfu City is the largest sulfur chemical production base in China and the largest stainless steel tableware production base in Guangdong Province. Stone processing has a long history and is known as "Stone City". Yunfu City is a national garden city, a national health city, a national advanced city for scientific and technological progress, a national agricultural product quality and safety city, a national grass-roots advanced unit of traditional Chinese medicine, a national rural reform pilot area, a demonstration base for stone circulation in China, the capital of artificial stone in China, the center of stone base in China, and the hometown of Chinese folk culture (stone carving) art. In 2021, the total output value of Yunfu City will reach 113.897 billion yuan, an increase of 8.1% year on year and an average increase of 6.1% in two years.