Licheng is a district (区)

District (China)

The term district, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China....

 in Quanzhou

Quanzhou

Quanzhou is a prefecture-level city in Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It borders all other prefecture-level cities in Fujian but two and faces the Taiwan Strait...

 Municipality

Prefecture-level city

A prefectural level city , prefectural city or prefectural level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. Prefectural level cities form the second level of the administrative...

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Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

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Cultural Attractions

• Kaiyuan Temple (开元寺)
• Qingjing Mosque
  Qingjing Mosque
  The Qingjing Mosque aka Ashab Mosque is a Mosque located in Quanzhou city, Fujian, China. It is found on Tumen Street. Constructed in 1009, the Arab style mosque is the oldest of its kind in China...
  
   (清净寺) - 1000 years old in 2009

Administration

The district comprises eight Street Offices (街道)

Subdistrict (China)

The subdistrict , is one of the smallest political divisions of China. It is a form of township-level division which is typically part of a larger urban area, as opposed to a discrete town surrounded by rural areas, or a rural townships known as a xiang .In general, urban areas are divided into...

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• Jiangnan (江南街道)
• Fuqiao (浮桥街道)
• Jinlong (金龙街道)
• Changtai (常泰街道)
• Kaiyuan (开元街道)
• Lizhong (鲤中街道)
• Haibin (海滨街道)
• Linjiang (临江街道)

There is also one Street-Office-level Garden Zone (园区):

• Jiangnan Gaoxin (江南高新园区)

Licheng in the News

In October 2008 a 46-year-old Licheng man slashed his wife with a kitchen knife, leaving her with ten wounds about the head and body, as well as breaking her legs. The Licheng procurator

Public procurator

A public procurator is an officer of a state charged with both the investigation and prosecution of crime. The office is a feature of a civil law inquisitorial rather than common law adversarial system of law and is usually found in current or former communist states...

 stated to District Court

Basic people's court

A basic people's court is a lowest level court in the Courts of General Jurisdiction in the People's Republic of China. According to the Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China, the basic people's courts handle the first instance cases at the local level.Basic people's...

that the man had confessed he'd suspected her to be adulterous, and accordingly intended to disfigure her. In February 2009 the court sentenced the assailant to 18 months in jail.