Leizhou, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is managed by Zhanjiang City, formerly known as Haikang County, and is located in the middle of Leizhou Peninsula, the southernmost part of Chinese Mainland. It is bordered by the South China Sea in the east, the Beibu Gulf in the west, the suburbs of Zhanjiang and Suixi County in the north, and Xuwen County in the south. The total area is 3709.33 square kilometers (including Zhanjiang Fenyong High-tech Zone, Suixi Forest Farm and Beipo Forest Farm). It is a pilot project of fiscal reform in counties directly under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province. By the end of 2020, Leizhou has jurisdiction over 3 streets and 18 towns. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Leizhou was 1321091.

Leizhou has a long history. As far as the Neolithic Age four or five thousand years ago, human beings flourished and thrived. It has always been the political, economic, cultural and cultural center of Leizhou Peninsula, with profound cultural accumulation. It is one of the 99 national historical and cultural cities promulgated by the State Council, known as the "Heavenly Land in the South of China".

In 2020, the city's GDP reached 32.736 billion yuan, up 0.2% year on year; The added value of industries above designated size was 1.436 billion yuan, up 35.1% year on year; The investment in fixed assets was 6.04 billion yuan, down 32.6% year on year; The total retail sales of consumer goods reached 16.33 billion yuan, down 5.6% year on year; The general public budget revenue was 671 million yuan, up 14.1% year on year; The actual utilization of foreign capital was US $7.77 million, down 4.5% year on year; The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents was 17868.4 yuan, up 6.6% year on year.