Standing in the southern suburbs of Wuyishan City, Fujian Province, it is a low mountain structured of red sandstone with an elevation of some 600m, being a concentration place of karst topographic landscape.

There are thirty-six peaks, ninety-nine crags, Nine-bend Stream, Peach Blossom Fairland Cave, Flowing Fragrance Creek, Recumbent Dragon Pond, Dragon Howling Crag and other scenic spots as well as Chongyou Myriad Year Palace (Wuyi Palace), former address of Ziyang Academy of Classical Learning (Wuyi Fine Study) and inscriptions of successive dynasties on precipices.

The Wuyishan State Key Natural Reserve is built in the bordering place among the three cities of Jianyang, Wuyishan and Guangze, and has been included in the international “Man and Biosphere” natural reserve network. The mountain was put in the “World Natural and Cultural Heritage List” in 1999.