Luzhou, historically called "Jiangyang", also known as Jiucheng and Jiangcheng, is a prefecture level city in Sichuan Province, a nationally designated regional central city, serving as a hub for Sichuan-Chongqing-Yunnan-Guizhou border regions, a central city in the south wing of Chengdu Chongqing dual city economic circle, an important trade and logistics center, and an important port city in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. As of 2019, Luzhou administered four counties and three districts, covering an area of 12232.34 square kilometers, with a permanent resident population of 4.3294 million and an urban permanent resident population of 2.251 million, with an urbanization rate of 52.00%.

With over 2,000 years of recorded history, Luzhou is a renowned historical and cultural city. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was established as the Marquis state of Jiangyang. In the Datong years of Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty, Luzhou was established. In the Song Dynasty, Luzhou was an important city in Southwest China. In the Ming Dynasty, it was one of the 33 commercial metropolises in China. The city boasts five distinctive tourism themes: renowned liquor culture, ecological heritage, revolutionary legacy, historical traditions, and Yangtze River civilization; it has 7 national 4A scenic spots, 6 national 3A scenic spots and 9 National 2A scenic spots.

Luzhou hosts the Yangtze River's second-busiest container port (upper-mid reaches) and Sichuan's third-largest airport. It is also the third batch of new comprehensive urbanization pilot area and cross border e-commerce comprehensive trial area. Its world-class Baijiu production cluster coexists with other national-level bases: food manufacturing, circular chemical industry, a clean energy production base, and a national high-performance hydraulic component. Technology industrialization base, one of the nine national construction machinery production bases.

Its honors include the UN Habitat Scroll of Honour Award (Dubai Award), top 100 cities in China's municipal development of people's livelihood, National Health City, China's excellent tourism city, National Forest City, National Garden City, national civilized city, national water ecological civilization city, etc.