Located in the central part of Sichuan Province, Emeishan City occupies a total area of 1,151.4 square kilometers and has a total population of 435,000.

Emeishan City gets its name due to its location at the foot of the beautiful Emei Mountain. In the Qin Dynasty, it was known as Nan¡Šan county under the Shu prefecture; in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it was called Emei county; and in the Sui Dynasty, it was named as Suishan county. After the founding of New China, it was once named as Emei county and in 1988, it was upgraded to Emeishan City.

Majority of the area of Emeishan City is mountainous regions, with southwest part being hilly areas and east part being plain. It enjoys a vertical climate combining the characteristics of subtropical zone, temperate zone and sub-frigid zone. The city has the features of warm weather in the plain and cool weather in hilly areas, with striking characteristics of vertical climate changes. The average annual rainfall is between 1,594 and 1,960 millimeters and the average annual temperature in the plain is 17.2¢J and on top of the mountain is 3.1¢J.

Emei Mountain is a famous tourist site. The scenery area of Emei Mountain is a national-level famous tourism spot and one of the four best-known Buddhist mountains in China. It is well known across the country for its grandness, elegance, rareness and dangerousness.

Emeishan City boasts the special local produe of tea, silkworm cocoon, white wax, mat grass, snow amorphophallus rivieri, gastrodia elata, and coptis chinensis, etc. The Emeishan Bamboo Leaf Green Tea is famous all over the world.