Daping Town, belonging to Xingning City, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, is located in the northwestern part of Xingning City, the center of the town is 29 kilometers away from Xingning City, the hometown of the revolutionary martyr Luo Pinghan, the center of the town is located at about 115°59' east longitude, 24°33' north latitude, the town is adjacent to the town of Heshui to the east, the town of Yetang to the south, the town is connected to the county of Longchuan to the west, and the town of Luogang to the north, the town has a total area of 186.99 square kilometers (in 2017) as of the 2017 end of the year, Daping Township had a resident population of 44,961. As of 2019, Daping Township has 37 administrative villages and 1 residential community.
During the Song Dynasty, the surrounding area of Daping Market Town in Xingning,循州兴宁, was a grassy field for military training and horse training, and Daping Town got its name because of the large lawn.In 1979, the territory of present-day Daping Town was divided into the Revolutionary Committee of the Daping, Wutian, Lanting, and Pingyang People's Commune.In November 1983, the territory of present-day Daping Town was divided into the district offices of Pingyang and Daping (with Wutian and Lanting merged into it).In November 2004, Xingning City abolished the town of Pingyang, and the original administrative area of Pingyang Town was merged into it. In November 2004, Xingning City abolished Pingyang Township, the former administrative area of Pingyang Township was incorporated into Daping Township. Daping Town is a health town in Guangdong Province, the territory of the provincial highway Ganchi line and provincial highway S226 line through the town, the town's rural road mileage of 95.8 kilometers.
In 2018, the total industrial and agricultural output value of Daping Town is expected to realize 751 million yuan, an increase of 9.3%. The town's budget revenue reached 30.1637 million yuan, of which 579,000 yuan was local level revenue, with a 13.4% increase in budget revenue over the previous year.