Xiamen, China’s cleanest, most beautiful, seaport city, is located on the southeastern coast of Fujian Province.
Xiamen City, as an adminis-trative unit, can be dated back as far as the Song Dynasty. It has always been an important trading port, but since its establish-ment as one of China’s first four Special Economic Zones in 1981, Xiamen has become a “window city” for China’s opening to the out-side world. 
It’s one of the municipalities approved by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, being specially designated under separate state plan and en-joying provincial level of power in economic management. Today, Xia-men is a rapidly growing city, with a vigour-ous economy and a fully-modern in-frastructure. Over the past 10 years, Xiamen has increasingly focused on the cultivation of inter-national trade, education, and tourism. 
Ge-ography Xiamen was recently voted China’s cleanest city, and hasmany attractions for the foreign visitor. Xiamen and its surrounding countryside offers spec-tacular scenery and pleasant tree-lined beaches. Gulangyu, also knownas Piano Island, is a popular,peaceful weekend getaway.Xiamen’s Botanical Garden is anature lover’s paradise. And the Buddhist Nanputao Temple, dating back to the Tang Dynasty, is a national treasure.