Luqiao district is subordinate to Taizhou City, located in the middle of Zhejiang coast and China Gold Coast, bordering the East China Sea in the east, Wenling in the south, Huangyan in the west and Jiaojiang in the north. The land is 33.3km long from east to west and18.8km wide from north to south. Luqiao district has a total inland area of 274 square kilometers and a built-up area of 29.25 square kilometers. It governs 4 towns and 6 streets, with a total population of 4 1.3 million. The whole region is surrounded by mountains and seas, with hills and plains alternating; Rivers are vertical and horizontal, water networks are dense, and islands are dotted; Shallow beaches are vast, covering an area of 2 1.33 square kilometers. In 20 17, luqiao district's GDP was 6065438+54 million yuan. Luqiao district's civilization originated from the advanced Central Plains culture brought by Xu Yanwang's southern crossing in the late Zhou Dynasty. In the long river of history, many celebrities have stopped here: the great calligrapher Wang Xizhi once visited Luqiao, leaving "Mo Chi, the right army"; Jian Zhen, a master of Tang Dynasty, gave a lecture at Xiangyan Temple before his eastward journey. Ye Shi, a famous philosopher and writer in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Huang Wan, a Ming scholar with a bachelor's degree in Hanlin, once lived in Luqiao and gave lectures. Fang Guozhen, the leader of the first peasant uprising army at the end of Yuan Dynasty; Tao, a literary historian at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty: calligrapher and artist Huang Ke; Famous calligrapher Ren Zheng;