济源市位于豫西北,北依太行,西据王屋,南临黄河,东接华北平原,地处河南、山西的交界,焦作、洛阳、晋城、侯马四市之中,是子子孙孙挖山不止的愚公的故乡。古时济水、黄河、淮河、长江并称四渎,渎者,独也,意为独立流向大海的河流,济源即因济水发源而得名。隋开皇十六年(596年)设县,新中国后隶属焦作地区,1988年建市,1997年实行省直管体制。 Jiyuan City is located in the northwest of Henan Province, north of Taihang, west according to Wang house, south of the Yellow River, east of the North China Plain, is located in the junction of Henan and Shanxi, Jiaozuo, Luoyang, Jincheng, Houma four cities, is the son of Sun dig Mountain more than the hometown of Folks. Ancient water, the Yellow River, the Huaihe River, the Yangtze River and said four ditch, ditch, alone also, meaning an independent flow of the river to the sea, Jiyuan that is named after the birth of Jinan. Sui Kaihuang sixteen years (596 years) set up the county, after the new China under the jurisdiction of Jiaozuo City, built in 1988, the implementation of the provincial direct management system in 1997.