Minxian County, belonging to Dingxi City, Gansu Province, is located in the southern part of Dingxi City, Gansu Province, and gets its name because of the Minshan Mountain in its territory. Minxian establishment can be traced back to the earliest eight years of Qin Wangzheng (239 years ago) when called Lintao, is the western starting point of the Great Wall of Qin, the Western Wei Dynasty Emperor Daitong ten years (544 years) began to set up the Minzhou, Republic of China in two years (1913) changed into the Minxian County, 1985 after the jurisdiction of the Tingxi. Minxian under the jurisdiction of 15 towns, 3 townships, the county's total watershed area of 3,578 square kilometers, according to the seventh census data, as of November 1, 2020 zero hour, Minxian resident population of 425,627 people, the government is located in Minyang Township. Minxian is located in the edge of the Tibetan plateau, is the Gannan grassland to the Loess Plateau, Longnan mountainous transition zone, the territory of 2040-3754 meters above sea level, known as the "Longyuan dry dock". Climate for the plateau continental climate, low temperature and dry, frequent natural disasters, is 7-22 Dingxi earthquake hit county. Minxian has traditional Chinese medicine, livestock and grass, minerals, hydropower and other resources, is a national poverty-stricken county and one of the 58 key poverty-stricken counties in the Liupan Mountains area, the incidence of poverty 17.27%. Minxian abounds in angelica, red astragalus, astragalus, ginseng and other Chinese medicinal herbs 238 species, of which to "Min Gui" is the most famous, is "China's angelica township". In addition, Minxian is also the "hometown of Chinese Tao ink stone", "hometown of Chinese flowers", "hometown of Chinese poetry", "the United Nations folk song investigation and recording base ". The main attractions of Minxian County include the Wolf Dudan Wetland Grassland, Shuangyan Ecological Scenic Area, and Minzhou Conference Site. In December 2018, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development identified it as the second batch of China's characteristic agricultural products advantageous area. The county's gross regional product realized 4.861 billion yuan in 2019, an increase of 5.5% over the previous year.