Lintao County, anciently known as Didao, belongs to Dingxi City of Gansu Province and is named after the Taohe River in its territory. Lintao County is located in the center of Gansu Province and the west of Dingxi City, situated in the intersection zone of Loess Plateau and Tibetan Plateau, with the largest tributary of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the Taohe River, passing through the city. The county has a total area of 2851 square kilometers, as of 2020, Lintao County under the jurisdiction of 18 townships (towns), 323 villages, 12 communities, the county government in Taoyang Township. at the end of 2023, the resident population of Lintao County was 473.4 thousand people. Lintao since ancient times for the northwest famous euphony, long right important town, is located in the ancient silk road main road, is the yellow river ancient culture one of the important birthplaces. Since Zhou An Wang eighteen years (384 years B.C.) builds sets up the Di Dao county, the Qin Zhao Wang twenty-seven years (280 years B.C.) begins to set up the Longxi county since, has been for the county, the state, the road, the government, the county seat. Lintao is the capital of Lanzhou's south gate, the county is 80 kilometers away from Lanzhou city, is "Lanbai economic zone" within the important node city. Lan Lin, Kang Lin, Linwei high-speed and 212 national highway and provincial highway 309, 311 line through the territory, is connected with the south-central Gansu and Linxia, Gannan two ethnic minority areas must pass through the place and the Eurasian continental bridge economic belt radiation circle in the key counties and districts. In 2022, Lintao County county-wide gross regional product of 10.197 billion yuan, calculated at constant prices, an increase of 7.5%.