Boai County, belonging to Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, is located in the southern foothills of the Taihang Mountains, northwest of Jiaozuo City, and adjacent to Zezhou County of Jincheng City in the north. It borders Jiaozuo city center and Wuzhi county in the east, is connected with Qinyang city across the Dan River in the west, and is separated from Wen county across the Qin River in the south. The total area of the administrative region is 435 square kilometers, and as of the end of 2020, the resident population of Boai County was 400,000 people.
During the Xia Dynasty, it was established as the domain of Qinhuai in Jizhou, and belonged to the "Qinhuai land". In August 1927, when Feng Yuxiang was in charge of Yu, according to General Ji Hongchang's petition, the area east of the Dan River in the northeast of Qinyang County was set aside, and Boai County was added, with the county seat at Qinghua Town, directly under the jurisdiction of Henan Province. on September 1, 1983, Xinxiang District was abolished, and Boai County was transferred to the jurisdiction of Jiaozuo City, where it remains to this day. As of October 2022, Boai County has 2 streets, 5 towns, 2 townships, and 1 township-level unit under its jurisdiction. The county people's government is located in Zhongshan Road, a street in Qinghua Town.
In 2022, the gross regional product of Boai County completed 16.8 billion yuan, with a growth rate higher than that of the city by 0.4 percentage points; the value-added of regulated industry completed 2.8 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 9.9%, the second highest in the city; the general public budget revenue completed 1.06 billion yuan, with a growth rate higher than that of the city by 0.5 percentage points, and the tax revenue increased by 7.2%.
On January 22, 2020, it was named a national garden county by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. on July 29, 2020, it was selected to be on the 2019 list of re-confirmation of national sanitary townships (county cities).