Anxi, located at the junction of Xiamen-Zhangquan Golden Triangle in the southeast of Fujian Province, is surrounded by mountains and seas, and has a unique geographical advantage. It is 55 kilometers away from Quanzhou, a famous historical and cultural city, and 85 kilometers away from Xiamen Special Economic Zone. It is one of the first coastal counties approved by 1985.
Anxi is known as the "Dragon and Phoenix Famous Area", and there are many places of interest in the territory. Zhu, a Neo-Confucianist in Song Dynasty, visited Anxi many times with the theme of "Eight Scenes of Qingxi". The Qingshui Rock Temple in Penglai, founded by Zu (the founder of Qingshui), has become a famous tourist attraction at home and abroad after successive renovations. The "Anxi Confucian Temple", which was founded in the Northern Song Dynasty, is grand in scale and imposing, and is known as "the first in eight provinces in Fujian".
In addition, there are more than 50 provincial, municipal and county cultural relics protection units such as Dongyue Temple, Chenghuang Temple, Weizhen Temple, Xianliang Temple, Hong 'en Rock and Qingfeng Cave.
Anxi is one of the largest oolong tea producing areas in China, the birthplace of famous tea Tieguanyin and Huang Jingui, and the oolong tea export base county in Fujian Province. There are 250,000 mu of tea gardens in the county, with an annual output of 1.5 million tons of tea, accounting for 1/3 of the total output of oolong tea in Fujian Province and 1/4 of the total output of oolong tea in China.