河南位于中国中东部，黄河中下游，东接安徽、山东，北接河北、山西，西临陕西，南临湖北，河南省面积16.7万平方公里，在全国各省市区居第17位，河南是全国第一人口大省，人口9768万人。河南现辖17个直辖市，1个省直管市，21个县级市，89个县和48个市辖区。2005年河南省生产总值10535.2亿元，同比增长14.1%，全省人均生产总值11236元。二十多年来，河南省旅游业取得长足的发展。2004年，全省共接待旅游者45万人次，旅游创汇1.6亿美元，同比分别增长138.7%与152%，累计接待国内旅游者8012万人次，国内旅游收入560亿元人民币，同比分别增长58.6%和63.8%，实现旅游总收入573亿元，同比分别增长65.2%，相当于全省GDP的7.2%。河南既是传统的农业大省又是工业大省，河南省2007年粮食产量超过1000亿斤，连续八年居全国第一，河南省2007年GDP突破1.5万亿元，连续十年居全国第五，仅次于广东、山东、江苏和浙江，人均GDP跃居全国第16位，成为新兴的经济大省。

Henan is located in the middle and eastern part of China, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, bordering Anhui, Shandong in the east, Hebe, Shanxi in the north, Shaanxi in the west and Hubei in the south. It has an area of 0.167 million square kilometers and a population of 97.68   million, ranking 17th and first respectively in China. Henan has seventeen cities under its jurisdiction, one city under its control, twenty-one county level cities, eighty-nine counties and forty-eight districts. In 2005, it had a GDP of 1053.52 billion with a year-on-year increase of 14.1% and a per-capita GDP of 11236 Yuan. Over the past more than twenty years, Henan has gained great achievement. In 2004, it received 0.45 million persons／times of tourists and got a foreign currency of 0.16 billion US. dollars with a year-on-year increase of 138.7% and 152% respectively. Henan has received 80.12 million persons／times of domestic tourists and got a domestic tourism revenue of 56 billion RMB with a year-on-year increase of 58.6% and 63.8% respectively, achieving a gross tourism revenue of 57.3 billion with a year-on-year increase of 65.2%, or 7.2% of its GDP. It is a major province in terms of agriculture and industry. In 2007, Henan had a grain output exceed 50 billion kilograms, ranking first for eight successive yeas in China, and it had a GDP of 1500 billion, ranking fifth for ten successive years in China, only next to Guangdong, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It has been a new emerging major province in terms of economy with its GDP ranking 16th.