Two types of the Jurassic basin were distinguished in Southeast China, according to their geodynamic features, namely the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic post-orogenic basin and the Middle Jurassic intra-continental extensional basin. The authors proposed that Mount Wuyishan was uplifted as early as Middle Jurassic, followed by a wide E-W trend depression and bimodal volcanism in the western foot of Mount Wuyishan. It was the uplift of the Mount Wuyishan domain that changed the Middle Jurassic paleo-geographic outline and formed the transformational tectonic regime from compression to extension, reflecting a strong tectonic response to the Pacific plate subduction.