Dingxi City, commonly known as "Longzhong", is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Gansu Province, an important node city of the Gansu section of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the center of the Longzhong region, as approved by the People's Government of Gansu Province. As of 2023, the city has a total area of 19,600 square kilometers, with one district and six counties under its jurisdiction. As of the end of 2022, Dingxi City had a resident population of 2,505,800 people.
Located in northwestern China and central Gansu Province, Dingxi is at the intersection of the Loess Plateau, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Western Qinling Mountains, with a wide range of climatic differences. It is known as "the gateway to Lanzhou and the throat of Gansu", and is an important corridor of the ancient Silk Road and the Tangfan Road, as well as an important node city of the "One Belt, One Road" and the Western Land and Sea New Corridor.
Dingxi City has a long history, since the Warring States Qin Longxi County, has a history of more than 2,200 years, is an important birthplace of the Yellow River civilization of the Chinese nation, the Majiayao cultural naming place, Li's ancestral roots, Qi Jia, Temple Pits, Xindian and other prehistoric cultural confluence of the nation's important distribution of paintings and calligraphy, the National Comprehensive Pilot Area for the Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry Core Zone, the country's first regional potato seed breeding bases. Within the territory of the national 4A level scenic spots Zhangxian Guiqing Mountain / Chayang Mountain, Weiheyuan scenic area as the representative of the natural landscape, the Red Army's Long March Tongwei "Panglao meeting", Minxian "Minzhou meeting" Memorial Museum as the representative of the red tourist attractions, the "Longxi Hall", the "Longxi Hall". The humanistic and historical landscape represented by "Longxi Hall".
In January 2024, according to the unified accounting results of regional gross domestic product, in 2023, the city's gross regional product 60.01 billion yuan, calculated at constant prices, an increase of 6.6% over the previous year. Among them, the added value of primary industry is 12.37 billion yuan, up 5.5%; the added value of secondary industry is 10.58 billion yuan, up 11%; the added value of tertiary industry is 37.06 billion yuan, up 5.9%.