Along with neighbouring city Xiamen, Fuzhou has also made great strides in the video gaming industry, boasting a number of successful game developers, and even setting up its own e-sports association in 2018.Īlso known as the City of the Banyans for a swathe of banyan trees planted as far back as the Song Dynasty (960–1279), Fuzhou is considered one of China’s greenest cities.
In 2018, Fuzhou hosted China’s first Digital Summit, an expo of new homegrown tech innovations, from driverless buses and delivery vehicles to smart wearables. In 2010, Fuzhou was designated a ‘national innovative pilot city’, becoming a testing ground for everything from big data centres in the healthcare realm to smart industrial hubs like the Fuzhou Science and Technology Park, a tech incubator and one of the drivers of the city’s success. Since China’s reform and opening up in the 1980s, Fuzhou has been at the forefront of various national investment and trade initiatives, and today the city can boast a GDP that’s at least 30 percent higher than the China average. Fast forward a few centuries, and Fuzhou boasts a robust economy, benefitting from inward investment from many thousands of overseas Chinese whose ancestors once called Fuzhou home. During the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), exports in porcelain flourished, while the much-admired mariner Zheng He embarked on a series of grand ocean voyages from Fuzhou, commanding flotillas of ‘treasure ships’ westward as far as Africa.
Fuzhou, a port city and the capital of Fujian province, has always been an outward-looking sort of place.
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