Taishan City, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province and managed by Jiangmen City, is located in the southwest of the Pearl River Delta, with a total land area of 3286.3 square kilometers. By the end of 2021, the total registered residence population of Taishan City will be 962700. As of October 2022, Taishan City has 1 street and 16 towns under its jurisdiction. Taishan Municipal People's Government is located at 23 Zhongshan Road, Taicheng Street.

In the 12th year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1499), Xinning County was established, which was under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Government of Guangdong Provincial Government. In April of the sixth year of the Tongzhi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1867), the Turks and the Guests were divided, and Chixi Hall was established, directly under the Guangdong Chief Political Secretary. From the founding of the People's Republic of China to May 1952, Taishan and Chixi counties were subordinate to the CPC Central Guangdong Region. On April 17, 1992, Taishan County was abolished and Taishan City (county level) was established, which was directly under the provincial government. Taishan City is known as "the first hometown of overseas Chinese in the country" and "the two Taishan mountains inside and outside". There are more than 1.6 million Taishan villagers living overseas and more than 90 countries and regions including Hong Kong and Macao. Taishan is a famous "hometown of volleyball", "hometown of Guangdong music", "hometown of Chinese folk art", "hometown of floating color art", as well as the nominated city of the national civilized city and the national forest city.

According to the unified accounting of Jiangmen Municipal Bureau of Statistics, the gross regional product (preliminary accounting) of Taishan City will reach 50.323 billion yuan in 2021, an increase of 8.5% over the previous year.