According to official website, Chizhou Municipal People's Government withdrew its land to set up a city in 2000, which has jurisdiction over Guichi District, dongzhi county, shitai county, Qingyang County and Jiuhuashan Scenic Area, and established Anhui-Jiang Nanan Emerging Industry Concentration Zone and national Chizhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, covering an area of 8,399 square kilometers. Registered population at the end of 2022 1.60 1.000 (permanent population 1.32
Chizhou City, referred to as Qiupu for short, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Anhui Province and the central city of the Yangtze River Delta. Located in the south of Anhui Province, on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it borders Tongling City, Wuhu City and Xuancheng City in the east, Huangshan City in the south, Anqing City and Zongyang County across the river in the west and north, and Jiangxi Province in the west. The terrain of the city is high in the southeast and low in the northwest, and it is distributed in a ladder shape from south to north. Jurisdiction 1 district 3 counties, with a total area of 8399 square kilometers.