In 1960, with the approval of the State Council, Chengdu Longquan Station District was officially established.

Longquanyi has been designated as a high-tech development district, with investment mainly focused in the urban areas.

Many hillsides that have been used to farm will be converted by the local government to forest areas, as the district finds tourism more profitable than trying to grow crops on mountainsides.

As of November 2007, more than 3,000 students have already moved from their mountain villages to the city for their educations, almost two-thirds of them subsidized by the government.

Forty-two percent of the district is located in the poor, mountainous parts of Sichuan province.