Lichuan County, subordinate to Fuzhou City of Jiangxi Province, is located in the east of Jiangxi Province, at the junction of Jiangxi and Fujian. It borders Guangze, Shaowu, Jianning and Taining of Fujian Province in the southeast, and Nancheng, Nanfeng and Zixi of this city in the northwest. It is the east gate of Jiangxi and the bridgehead of Haixi, with a total area of 1728 square kilometers. As of 2018, Lichuan County has jurisdiction over 7 towns and 8 townships, with the county government based in Rifeng Town. As of midnight on November 1, 2020, Lichuan County has a permanent population of 205,205.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Lichuan was known as "the land of hundred Yue". The Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing eight years (1138) on March 25 to build the county, the county set up Litan Town, Xincheng county known as Lichuan, is under the jurisdiction of the Jianchang Army. In the four generations of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, Lichuan had 497 students and 196 scholars in the examination, giving birth to Zhang Yuanwei, the first champion of Fuzhou, Li Jin, a famous thinker in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Chen Fuen, the Five Books of the Qing Dynasty.

Lichuan is one of the 34 Central Soviet counties. The Fujian and Jiangxi Provincial Committee of CPC, the provincial Soviet government and the provincial military region were founded in Lichuan Hufang, and the Seven Red Army regiments were founded in Lichuan. Selected China (Jiangxi) top ten red tourism sites. Lichuan County has a forest coverage rate of 68.94%. It is a national ecological demonstration zone and a national key ecological function zone. Lichuan has many historical sites such as the ten-mile long Street of Ming and Qing Dynasties, the ship-shaped ancient house of Zhou Lake, the four ancient temples of Fulu Shouxi, and so on. It is the hometown of Reya Sinensis and the hometown of Chinese folk culture and art (oil painting).
In 2020, the GDP of Lichuan County reached 8.545 billion yuan, an increase of 3.7%.