Looking across Quanzhou Bay from Houbour, the water are broad and placid, with deep passages navigable all year round. It is an exeptional natural barbour. Smaller harbour such as Houzhu, Xunmei, Shihu, Hanjiang, Xiutu and Wuyu dot the shores of the bay, like a string of on the winding coastline.

As a National key culture relics, Qingjing Mosque is located in the middle section of Tumen Street, Licheng District, covering an area of 2,500 m2.

Qingjing Mosque faces the street in the South, with a pointed dome roof. The dome has three layers: inside, middle and outside. On the external wall, there is a statue on the top, which is carved with “Alcoran” in Arabic. The back wall of the mosque is carved with ancient Arabic script, recording the time of construction and repair and the builders. In the mosque, there is a stone carving of the emperor's instruction about the protection of the Islamic mosque in Yongle 5th Year of the Ming Dynasty (1407). On top of the mosque gate, there is a platform named “platform looking at the moon” which is built with bricks in the shape of dual-square.

As a National AAAA scenic spot and provincial natural reserve, Niumu Forest Ecological Sightseeing Zone is located at Xiayang town, the west of Yongchun County, Quanzhou of Fujian Province.

Niumu forest is the extension of Mountain Daiyun with an attitude of 1,105 meters. It is the largest and best preserved primary forest at present in South China. The main sightseeing area in Niumu forest ecological zone covers 1,000 ha, consisting over 40 scenic spots. The most famous sites are the ecological and scientific popularization museum, orchid garden, Yongchun Tangerine orchard, Qingqian Liule Garden, Cuckoo Castle, board root, strangled killing, parasitic cauline flower, Fujian phoebe trees, yew, foliage, Woniutan, Zhonglidizhu, Konggulaifeng. The entertainment activities offered for tourists include cable sliding at high altitude, grass ski fashion, mock hunting, standard shooting, archery, and jungle field operation.

Initiated in 1959, and the only maritime museum in China, the Overseas Traffic History Museum consists of museum of Quanzhou's overseas traffic history, museum of chinaware for export, and museum of religious stone carvings. The ship and marine relics unearthed at Quanzhou Bay are displayed in it. The research center of Chinese overseas traffic history, a national academic research organization, is located in this museum.

As a National geographical Park and national forest park, Mountain Shiniu is located in the territory of Dehua, in the middle of Fujian Province and the southeast part of mid Daiyun Mountain range.

Mountain Shiniu is famous for its vicious cliff, strange-shaped rocks, strange-looked trees and mysterious caves. In the park, there are high mountains and a dense forest, with humid climate, excellent natural environment, and bio-diversity. It is a kingdom of plants and paradise of animals.

The major tourism attractions include the main peak of Mountain Shiniu, Daixian double water falls, bamboo raft drifting on Taoxian Stream, rubber boat drifting on Shilong Stream, Tadou hot spring, Peach-flower Island, the relics of Fujian Provincial Committee building.