Quanzhou is a prefecture-level city on the southeast coast of Fujian Province, bordering Putian in the north, Xiamen in the south and Taiwan Province Island in the east. Quanzhou is located at117 25'-119 05' and 24 30'-25 56' north latitude. Located in the southeast coast of Fujian Province and the west bank of Taiwan Strait, it is 153 km wide from east to west and 65438+ long from north to south.

Quanzhou geotectonics is located in the southeast of South China fold system, and in the south-central part of eastern Fujian volcanic rift zone. The structural belts are all distributed in northeast-southwest direction. The trunk of Daiyun Mountain in the middle part of the mountain range in central Fujian is distributed in the northeast-southwest direction, located in Dehua in the northwest, with a huge scale. The elevation of the main peak is1856m, which is the second highest peak in Fujian province.

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Quanzhou's natural resources;

Quanzhou is rich in land resources and limited in cultivated land. There are many streams in Quanzhou. There are 34 rivers, with a drainage area of 100 km2 and a total length of 1549 km, including 5 rivers in Jinjiang/kloc-0, 5 rivers in Kowloon, 9 rivers in Minjiang and 5 rivers entering the sea alone. There are 8 1 river with a basin area of 50 square kilometers and above, with a total length of 2 156 kilometers. Jinjiang and Luoyang rivers are the main rivers in Quanzhou, and the average total water resources in the city for many years is 9.63 billion cubic meters.

There are 46 kinds of minerals found in Quanzhou, and 29 kinds of minerals with proven resource reserves by geological exploration, including 2 kinds of energy minerals, 8 kinds of metal minerals, 8 kinds of nonmetal minerals 18, and water gas minerals 1 species.

The main minerals are: iron, manganese, copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, gold, silver, coal, pyrite, limestone (marble) for cement, pyrophyllite, wollastonite, alunite, fluorite (ordinary), graphite, feldspar, kaolin, ceramic clay (porcelain stone), illite, clay for cement and granite (stone) for building.

Baidu encyclopedia-Quanzhou

Quanzhou Municipal People's Government-Natural Resources