Zhaoqing City, formerly known as Duanzhou, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province. It is an important node city of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Pearl River-Xijiang Economic Belt, and an important part of the Guangzhou-Foshan-Zhao Economic Circle and the Guangzhou Metropolitan Circle. By 2021, the city has 3 districts, 4 counties and 1 county-level city under its jurisdiction, with a total area of 14897.45 square kilometers and a permanent population of 4.1297 million.

Zhaoqing is located in the central and western parts of Guangdong Province, and is an important transportation hub from the southeast coast to the southwest provinces. The Seven-Star Rock in Zhaoqing City is known as "the first wonder in Lingnan"; Dinghu Mountain is a national nature reserve. Taking the Xinghu Scenic Spot as the center, the scenic spots such as Panlong Gorge, "the first stone in the world", Qianlianfeng, Guangning Bamboo Sea Grand View, Yanyan Rock and so on are successively expanded along the Xijiang River and Suijiang River, forming a beautiful picture of the thousand-mile tourism corridor.

Zhaoqing is a national historical and cultural city, and one of the birthplaces of Xijiang culture; It is also a popular area of Guangfu culture and a livable landscape city. Zhaoqing is the throat of Guangdong and Guangxi, and has the reputation of "the first state from the south of the mountain"; It has become the political, economic and cultural center of Lingnan or Southwest China for five times in history. The Han Dynasty set up Guangxin; The Sui Dynasty established Duanzhou; In the Song Dynasty (1118), Zhaoqing Prefecture was established; From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Zhaoqing was the residence of the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi; During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zhaoqing became the capital of the Yongli Dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

In 2021, the gross regional product of Zhaoqing City was 264.999 billion yuan, an increase of 10.5% year on year and an average increase of 6.7% in two years.