Yongning District is located in the south of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the southeast of Nanning City, the capital. Jurisdiction of Pumiao Township, Xinjiang Township, Baiji Township, Nalou Township, Zhonghe Township 5 townships, 9 communities, 65 administrative villages, 402 natural villages, the total area of the city of 1,255 square kilometers. The area of cultivated land under the jurisdiction is 45,600 hectares, of which 13,800 hectares are paddy fields, 20,300 hectares are drylands, and 42,500 hectares are forested, with a forest coverage rate of 34.5%. As of the end of 2022, the resident population of Yongning District is 339,700 people.
With a long history, Yongning was founded in the first year of Daxing of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (318 AD), and was abolished as a county and set up as a district in 2005 according to the adjustment of Nanning's administrative division. The district also has many cultural and historical monuments, such as the Five Sacred Palaces in the Qing Dynasty and the Leibeling Cliff Rock Carvings. Yongning folk customs are colorful, Loud and clear mountain song, snatch flower cannon, tea picking opera, dance spring bulls, etc. was included in the autonomous region level intangible cultural heritage list, Yongning Zhuang Banyin is famous, is "China's hometown of Banyin culture".
On December 12, 2018, it was named as the second batch of "green water and green mountains are golden silver mountains" practice and innovation bases. in March 2019, it was selected as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization of piece of county list.
In 2022, Yongning District completed a gross regional product of 16.54 billion yuan, an increase of 5.1% over 2021 at comparable prices.