Sheqi County, belonging to Nanyang City, Henan Province, is located in the southwestern part of Henan Province, on the northeastern edge of the Nanyang Basin. It is located between 112°46°~113°11°E longitude and 32°47°~33°19°N latitude, with a subtropical continental monsoon climate, four distinct seasons, abundant light, long frost-free period, and a terrain tilted from northeast to southwest, with a total area of 1,203 square kilometers, and a total population of 769,000 in 2022 in Sheqi County. As of June 2023, Sheqi County has 2 streets, 13 towns, and 1 township under its jurisdiction, with the county people's government stationed at No.1 Xishan Cargo Street.
Sheqi has a long history, Sheqi county seat of the town of credit store ancient name "credit store", because of the Eastern Han Dynasty Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu had in this "credit flag visit will be, up division against Mang" and so named. 1965, the establishment of the county, Premier Zhou personally renamed the name of "credit flag" to "credit flag". In 1965, when the county was founded, Premier Zhou personally renamed it "Credit Flag" as "Social Flag", which means "Socialist Flag". During the Qianjia period of the Qing Dynasty, the ancient town of Yundian was known as a "giant town in southern Henan" with "the land bordering on ochre water, the north going to Bianluo, the south boat and the north horse, and the total collection of general merchandise", and it was a transit point of the "Ten Thousand Miles Tea Route". Seventy-two ancient streets in the county are well preserved, constituting the largest Qing Dynasty architectural complex in the Central Plains. Among them, the Shan-Shaan Hui-Huaiguan centrally displays the essence of ancient Chinese architectural art, and is known as "the first Hui-Huaiguan in the world". Since ancient times, it has been said that "depending on the Feniu and the Han River, looking at the golden basin and scooping up the agar; looking up to the time and living in the geography, rich in products and smooth people and". Sheqi is a place of great talent. In the ancient times, there is the famous materialist thinker Fan Jian in the North and South Dynasties; now there are Zhang Bingxi, Zhou Chunxi and other famous people.On February 26, 2020, Sheqi County quit the poverty-stricken county.On July 29, 2020, it was selected as the list of the 2019 reconfirmed national sanitary townships (county towns).
In 2022, Sheqi County realized a gross domestic product (GDP) of 20.908 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 5%.