Jize County, belonging to Handan City, Hebei Province, is located in the southern part of Hebei Province, the northeastern part of Handan City leaning to the west, the east foot of the Taihang Mountains, the Haihe Plain of the Black Dragon Harbor Basin, is located in the junction area of the four provinces of Jin, Hebei, Lu, Henan, and the eastern part of the important node of the Hand Xing city. Jize County is a temperate continental climate, dry and windy in the spring, hot and rainy in the summer, windy and clean in the fall, and cold and dry in the winter and other characteristics. The total area is 337 square kilometers. As of zero hour on November 1, 2020, the resident population of Jize County is 297,425 people.
The name of Jizhe, first appeared in the historical book "Spring and Autumn Annals", because of the birds inhabiting, water and grass, "bird perched next to Xi means yam, water and grass together named Ze", so the name "Jizhe". At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, Guangping County was reestablished, and in the 16th year of the Sui Dynasty (596), it was renamed Jize County, and on June 19, 1993, the State Council approved the abolition of the Handan District and the transformation of the district into the city of Handan, with Jize County under the jurisdiction of the city of Handan. As of January 2022, Jize County has 6 towns, 1 township, 7 communities and 169 administrative villages under its jurisdiction.
Jize is a county administrative area known as the place of alliance of the lords of nine countries, the hometown of Mao Sui, the ancestral home and growing place of Mao carambola and Mao Heng, the hometown of Chinese chili peppers, a thousand-year old county, the ancestral home of Mao Zedong, a great man of the generation, and the birthplace of the Mao surname clan. it was named a national garden county in 2016.
In 2021, the GDP of Jizhe County will complete 11.19 billion yuan, an increase of 7.6%; the general public budget revenue will complete 660 million yuan, an increase of 7.7%; the total fiscal revenue will complete 990 million yuan, an increase of 13.4%; the value-added of the regulated industry will increase by 8.5%, the investment in fixed assets will increase by 6.5%, and the total retail sales of consumer goods will increase by 7.2%.