'golden prefecture') is one of the seven districts of Dalian, Liaoning province, People's Republic of China.

It is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of the city centre and faces the Bohai Sea to the west as well as the Korea Bay to the east and has a longer history than Dalian itself, and used to be a thriving walled city where the officials of this area were dispatched from the central government.

Its area is 1,352.54 square kilometres (522.22 sq mi) and its permanent population as of 2020[update] is 1,545,491.

[3][2][4] Before Russia coerced a lease of the Lüshun Naval Port from the Qing dynasty and established Dalian as a commercial port in 1898, Jinzhou was the center of this region, a thriving walled town, to which the central government official was dispatched to rule this region.

[6][7] Subdistricts: Colleges and Universities International schools The Eight Views of Old Jinzhou are:[citation needed]