Lianjiang City, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is managed by Zhanjiang City. It is located in the southwest of Guangdong Province, in the north of Leizhou Peninsula, bordering Guangxi and bordering the Beibu Gulf, with a total area of 2835 square kilometers. The geographical coordinates are from 21 ° 25 ′ N to 21 ° 55 ′ N and from 109 ° 45 ′ E to 110 ° 30 ′ E. It was renamed Lianjiang County in 1914. In 1993, the county was abolished and the city was established. With a total area of 2866.83 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 3 streets and 18 towns. In 2021, Lianjiang will achieve a GDP of 51.616 billion yuan and a permanent resident population of 1.3669 million.

Lianjiang is a traditional agricultural county and a strong industrial county, rich in fruits, known as the hometown of fruits; It is the most prominent county-level city among the 40 major grain-producing counties in Guangdong; It is the only county in western Guangdong where pigs are transferred out of the country; The industry category is complete, especially the rice cooker industry, which accounts for more than 30% of the country's rice cooker output, and is "the hometown of China's rice cooker". It is a pilot project of fiscal reform in counties directly under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province.

Many generations of strata in Lianjiang are fully exposed, magmatism is frequent, and fold and fault structures are well developed. With good metallogenic geological conditions and numerous minerals, it is known as the "Kingdom of Granite" with a reserve of 20 billion cubic meters. The Tangpeng gold and silver mine in the north of the territory is also one of the key projects of the development and construction of the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" of Guangdong Province. The world-famous Hedi Reservoir, with a water storage capacity of 1.2 billion cubic meters and a water area of 122 square kilometers, has the reputation of "artificial sea". National leaders such as Dong Biwu, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi, Guo Moruo, etc. visited and wrote an inscription.

In November 2018, it was identified as the first batch of innovative counties (cities) by the Ministry of Science and Technology. On December 6, 2019, it was selected as the pilot unit to promote the quality of national farmers' cooperatives in the whole county. In December 2020, the Academy of Social Sciences released the Top 400 List of China's County Economic Development Report, and Lianjiang ranked 335.