Tantao County, a county under the jurisdiction of Handan City, Hebei Province, is located in southeastern Hebei and eastern Handan. With the Wei Canal as the border with Shandong Province Guanxian, Linqing City adjacent. Tiantao County has 277 administrative villages in 6 towns and 2 townships, with a total area of 456 square kilometers, including 480,000 acres of arable land. According to the seventh census data, as of zero hour on November 1, 2020, the resident population of Tantao County is 307,912 people. Tantao is a thousand years old county, King Zhao "in the city (now Guanxian East Ancient City) seven miles northwest of the Tao Qiu side of the pavilion, so the name Tantao", since the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty set up the county, has a history of more than 2,200 years.
Tantao County has been awarded the China's hometown of egg-laying hens, China's hometown of black pottery art, China's hometown of grain painting, China's hometown of light bearings, China's hometown of cucumbers, China's hometown of lacquer painting art, the National Leisure Agricultural and Rural Tourism Demonstration County, the national e-commerce into rural areas demonstration county, the national basic balanced development of compulsory education county, the National Chinese Medicine advanced county, the national advanced county of mass sports and so on more than 30 national level honors.
In recent years, Tantao County has focused on creating five business cards. One is the "largest", poultry egg trading market Jinfeng market, the largest single unit in the country, eggs are exported to Guangdong, Guangxi and other places, the 2016 turnover reached 11 billion yuan; two is the "optimal", Tantao is China's famous hometown of black ceramic art, modern black ceramic art Through the inheritance and innovation of the people of Tantao, there are more than 1,000 varieties of black pottery; three is the "best", Tantao is the only hometown of cucumber in China, Tantao Qing brand cucumber, won the gold medal of the China Green Expo for four consecutive years; four is the "best", Tantao has a unique black wheat rich in trivalent organic chromium, which is the best in the world. Trivalent organic chromium-rich black wheat, which can be used in medical fields such as blood sugar inhibition and anti-tumor; Fifth, "the most beautiful", grain painting town was named "China's top ten most beautiful countryside", and is about to be upgraded from a 3A scenic spot to become a national 4A tourist attraction. 2022, Tiantao County will achieve a regional GDP of 115.5 million yuan. In 2022, Tantao County realized a gross regional product of 11.5 billion yuan.
In April 2020, it was selected by the Hebei Provincial Sports Bureau as "the best county (city, district) for sports work in 2019".
