Lishui County was founded in the 11th year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (AD 59 1). Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, Zhou Bangyan, a poet in the Song Dynasty, and Yuan Mei, a writer in the Qing Dynasty, all served as Lishui County Commanders, and Cui Zhiyuan, the ancestor of Korean Confucianism, also served as Lishui County Commanders. Scholars of all ages, such as Xie Lingyun, Li Bai, Yan Zhenqing and Yang Wanli, visited Lishui and left a lot of poems praising Lishui. There are cultural relics such as Wuxiang Temple, Cliff Stone Carving in Wuxiang Mountain, Tiansheng Bridge, Rouge River, Changle Bridge, Putang Bridge, Yongshou Tower, Ma Xu Tomb, one of the 480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, as well as Hao Zhongshan, school official tablet, Luoshan Dragon, Mingjue iron painting forging skills and so on. [2]
By the end of 20 19, Lishui District has successively won the titles of National Garden City, National Sanitary City, National Ecological Zone, National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration Zone, National Top 100 Comprehensive Strength Zone, National Top 100 Investment Potential Zone, National Top 100 Green Development Zone, National Top 100 Scientific and Technological Innovation Zone and National Top 100 New Urbanization Quality Zone. Lishui currently has "six experimental demonstration zones": Jiangsu Nanjing National Agricultural High-tech Industrial Demonstration Zone, the first batch in China and the only one in the Yangtze River Delta; National Airport Economic Demonstration Zone, with the only bonded logistics center in Nanjing (type B); Healthy Jiangsu Practice Demonstration Zone, the only one in the province; Ning Hang Cooperation Experimental Zone, the first inter-provincial cooperation experimental zone in Ning Hang Eco-economic Belt; National urban-rural integration development pilot zone [3]; Nanjing's only experimental area for high-quality development of manufacturing industry.