九华镇为九华山地质公园核心景区，游客集散中心之一，面积约12.3平方公里，常住人口3740余人。九华镇佛教文化始于东晋（公元401年），现寺宇林立，享“莲花佛国”美誉，徽派建筑古朴井然优美，中国特色旅游名镇。   九华镇地形呈典型“山-谷-盆”结构，东侧为海拔1200米的巍峨九华山脉；中部为海拔约450米的幽静闵园峡谷；西侧为平均海拔650米的串珠状池塘构成的山间盆地，古树参天，串珠状池塘具古冰斗遗迹特征。九华镇基底岩浆岩属青阳-九华复式花岗岩体。 Jiuhua Town, as a core scenic area and tourist center of Jiuhuashan Geopark, covers an area of about 12.3 km2 and holds resident population of over 3,740 people. The Buddhism culture here dates back to the Eastern Jin Dynasty (A.D.401). And now, the Jiuhua Town is full of temples, and hailed as Buddhist Country of Lotus Flowers. It is a famous tourist town with Chinese features because of unsophisticated, orderly and graceful Huizhou architecture. The terrain of Jiuhua Town is a typical structure of“mountain-valley-basin”. The east side is towering Jiuhua ridge with an altitude of 1200 m, the middle is the sequestered Minyuan Canyon with an altitude of about 450 m, the west side is intermountain basin composed of toruliform ponds featuring a paleo-cirque with an average altitude of 650 m, and teemed with high ancient trees. The magmatic rock body here is Qingyang-Jiuhua bimodal granite.