Meishan, formerly known as Meizhou or Qingzhou, is a prefecture-level city with 2,950,545 inhabitants as of 2010 census whom 1,107,742 lived in the built-up area made of the 2 urban districts of Dongpo and Pengshan. Its located in Sichuan province, China. Meishan is in the southwest of Sichuan Basin.
It belonged to Leshan Prefecture before 1997. Then Meishan Prefecture was founded in 1997 upon approval of state council. It was renamed Meishan City in 2000.