Honggu District belongs to Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, is located in Lanzhou City, a distant suburb, is located in the central part of Gansu Province, was established in 1960, due to the territory of hengtang Gorge to the east of the Honggu River and the name, geographic coordinates east longitude 102 ° 50 ′ - 102 ° 54 ′ and latitude 36 ° 19 ′ - 36 ° 21 ′ between the east of the Xigu District, the west of the Datong River , south of Huangshui River and Qinghai Minhe Hui Tujiazu Autonomous County and Yongjing County, the northern Huangtu mountain range and Yongdeng County adjacent. Located in Lanzhou, Xining, the geometric center of the two provincial capital cities. The total area is 567.66 square kilometers. According to the seventh census data, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the resident population of Honggu District was 143,795 people.
Honggu District has a total area of 567.66 square kilometers, with 4 streets and 4 towns under its jurisdiction.
Honggu District has 109 National Highway, Beijing-Tibet Expressway, Lanzhou-Qingdao Railway, Lanzhou-Aluminum Railway special line running through the whole territory, is the mainland to Qinghai, Tibet's throat channel, but also connects the Eurasian Continental Bridge strategic channel. Hai Shi Wan Town of Honggu District is the hometown of Asia's first dragon, the Mamenxi Dragon.
In October 2014, Lanzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone Honggu Park successfully declared as the fifth batch of national "urban minerals" demonstration base.On January 25, 2019, was selected as the 2018 national "safe agricultural machinery" demonstration county. At the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan", Honggu District will realize a GDP of 10.001 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 1.64%.