Lishui is located in the regional center of the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration in China, which acts as a transportation node connecting Shanghai and Hangzhou. It is a rare tridimensional hub city in East China that integrates air ports, railways, highways, light rails and waterways. It ranks 52nd among the top 100 comprehensive strength regions and 18th among the top 100 green development regions in China.

Lishui is the southern gate of Nanjing, and development highland of high-quality manufacturing industry in Southern Nanjing. In recent years, the formation of New Energy Vehicle, Airport Industry, and Massive Health in Lishui, the three hundreds of billions industry landmarks,are accelerating and it was approved as a high-quality development experimental zone for Nanjing manufacturing industry at the end of 2019. At present, a number of powerful manufacturing enterprises including Consolidated. MetcoInc from America, Brembo from Italy, Siemens and A.O. Smith have settled into production. In addition, Lishui has national airport economy demonstration area, national agricultural high-tech industry demonstration area, national ecological civilization construction demonstration area, and national urban-rural integration development experimental area, which are known as national business cards with sufficient "gold, green, and new contents". Meanwhile,Lishuiis also the first inter-provincial cooperation experimental area of Nanjing-Hangzhou Ecological Economic Belt and the unique Healthy Jiangsu Demonstration Zone in Jiangsu.

In 2019, Lishuimade its first appearance on the stage of the "Expo Expo", the only district in Jiangsu Province to be promoted; it became the only "double champion" in Nanjing that has been awarded "two red flags" for investment for two consecutive quarters; the Airport Bonded Logistics Center (Type B) passed the inspection, the national second airport customs clearance base after Beijing is nearing operation, and the Global Smart Travel Conference was settled permanently; Lishuiranked the fourth in the provincein terms of achieving the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.