Location： Local transliteration from Hokkien: Hok-kiàn) is one of the provinces on the southeast coast of China

Neighboring Areas： Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south.

Population：Slightly above 34.7 million
Area： Around 120,000 square kilometers (about 46,335 square miles).
Local highlights：Sha xian snack

Introduction
Recent archaeological discoveries demonstrate that Fujian (especially the northern coastal region around Fuzhou) had entered the Neolithic Age by the middle of the 6th millennium BC. From the Keqiutou site (7450-5590 BP), an early Neolithic site in Pingtan Island located about 70 km southeast of Fuzhou, numerous tools made of stones, shells, bones, jades, and ceramics (including wheel-made-ceramics) have been unearthed, together with spinning wheels, a definitive evidence of weaving.
Fujian is hilly and farmland is sparse. Rice is the main crop, supplemented by sweet potatoes and wheat. Cash crops include sugar cane and rapeseed. Fujian leads the provinces of China in longan production, and is also a major producer of lychees and tea. Seafood is another important product, with shellfish production especially prominent.
Because of its mountainous nature and the numerous waves of migration from central China in the course of history, Fujian is one of the most linguistically diverse places in all Han Chinese areas of China. Local dialects can become unintelligible within 10 km. This is reflected in the expression that "if you drive five miles in Fujian the culture changes, and if you drive ten miles, the language does". Classification of these various dialects have confounded linguists. In general, most dialects of Fujian are put into a broad Min category, then subdivided into Min Bei, Min Dong, Min Zhong, Min Nan, Pu Xian, and Shao Jiang. (The seventh subdivision of Min, Qiong Wen, is not spoken in Fujian.) The Fuzhou dialect is part of Min Dong, but some linguists classified it as Min Bei; the Amoy language is part of Min Nan. Hakka, another subdivision of spoken Chinese, is spoken around Longyan by the Hakka people who live there.

Places of interest include
Guanghua Temple, mainland Putian
Gulangyu Island, Xiamen
Kaiyuan Temple, Quanzhou
Mount Tailao, Fuding
Mount Wuyi, listed by the UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites (1999)
Nanshan Temple, Zhangzhou
The Matsu pilgrimage centers around Meizhou Island (Putian Municipality), because she was born there (and died on Matsu Islands).
Yongquan Temple, Fuzhou
Hakka architecture
Zhaoren Temple is at the East Street in Changwu County, which was built in the periods of Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong’s reign (627-650) in memory of all the officers and soldiers who fought and died heroically. The Zhaoren Temple faces south. Covering an area of 4.869 square meters, the major buildings kept today are four courtyards connecting together. Three Chinese characters of “Zhaoren Temple” are written on the horizontal inscribed board of the Temple gate.  The tablet standing in the temple is the “Tablet of Youzhou Zhaoren Temple” is as long as more than 3,000 characters. So far well kept as it is, the inscription on it are still very clear and distinct. The Mahavira Hall of the Zhaoren Temple is cultural relic under national protection for its special construction.