Lingbi County, belonging to Suzhou City, Anhui Province, is located in the northeast of Anhui Province, bordering Siachen County in the east, Yongqiao District of Suzhou City in the west, Guzhen County and Wuhe County of Bengbu City in the south, and Tongshan District and Suining County of Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province in the north. The total area is 2,125 square kilometers. As of June 2023, Lingbi County has 19 towns under its jurisdiction and another development zone. As of the end of 2022, Lingbi County had a resident population of 971,000 people.
The name of Lingbi began in the Qin Dynasty, and was first recorded in the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian) and the Han Shu (Book of Han). The name "Lingbi" is derived from the fact that "the mountains and rivers are so beautiful that there are stones like biscuits". Lingbi has the ancient battlefield of Gaixia where Chu and Han fought, and is the hometown of Chinese folk culture and art, the hometown of Zhong Kui, the hometown of Chinese ornamental stones, the main production area of Chinese strange stones, and the Lingbi stone is regarded as the first of the four major ornamental stones in China. It has the reputation of "Stones, Yu Ji, Zhong Kui painting, Lingbi three best in the world".
In 2023, the GDP of Lingbi County will be 34 billion yuan, an increase of about 6%; fixed asset investment will increase by about 15%; the value-added of regulated industry will increase by about 6%; the total retail sales of consumer goods will increase by about 1.5%; the general public budget revenue will be 1.74 billion yuan, an increase of 21.8%; the disposable income per capita of urban and rural residents will be 36848 yuan, 18396 yuan, an increase of 4.9%, 8.3% and 8.4%, respectively. respectively, up 4.9% and 8.5%.