Pinghe County is a county under the jurisdiction of Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, located in the southwestern part of Zhangzhou, and is connected with eight counties in Fujian and Guangdong Provinces, which is known as "the thoroughfare of eight counties". Pinghe County is also an important ancestral home of Taiwan compatriots, known as "the first county in Fujian to move to Taiwan". Pinghe County covers an area of 2309.57 square kilometers. It has 10 towns and 5 townships under its jurisdiction. According to the seventh census data, as of November 1, 2020 zero time, the resident population of Pinghe County is 455,042 people. There are transportation arteries such as Fuzhao Expressway, Pingmei Expressway, Yunping Expressway, National Highway 355 and National Highway 357 in the territory.
Pinghe County in Ming Zhengde thirteen years (1518) set up the county, Wang Yangming led the troops into the Zhang expedition to quell the chaos, on the Fujian-Guangdong border in southern Zhangzhou to add the "Pinghe County", take "peace of the enemy and the people and" meaning. It is a key overseas Chinese hometown and the ancestral home of Taiwanese in Fujian Province, which is both an economically underdeveloped county and a coastal economic open county; Pinghe County is also one of the key overseas Chinese hometowns in Fujian Province, and one of the important ancestral homes of Taiwanese; the former Central Soviet Union County, and a key old-area county in the province.
Pinghe County has three green brands, namely, Gwenxi Honey Pomelo, Banzai Banana and Baiya Qilan Tea, and the industrialization of agriculture is in the forefront of the province. It has been named as the "Hometown of Gwenxi Honey Pomelo in China, the Hometown of Banana in China, and the Hometown of Baiya Qilan Tea in China", and it has been awarded as the "National Pollution-Free Fruit Production Demonstration County It has been awarded the titles of "National Pollution-free Fruit Production Demonstration County", "National Economic Forestry Demonstration County" and "National Advanced County in Science and Technology". It has a provincial industrial park and three industrial zones. The second batch of national agricultural product quality safety counties.
In 2022, Pinghe County will realize an annual GDP of 30.289 billion yuan, an increase of 4.8%.