Zigui County, belongs to the city of Yichang, Hubei Province. Zigui county, located in the western part of hubei province, on both sides of the xilingxia of the Yangtze river, the head of the three gorges dam. It borders Yiling District in the east, Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in the south, Badong County in the west, and Xingshan County in the north, with a total area of 2,274 square kilometers.At the end of 2022, Zigui County had a total household population of 361,900 people. As of October 2022, zigui county under the jurisdiction of: 8 towns, 4 townships, the county government is located in maoping town changning avenue 18th.
Han, set zigui county. Wu, divided the northern part of zigui to set up xingshan. in 1992, yichang area and yichang city merged to set up yichang city, zigui county changed to yichang city. on April 29, 2019, the people's government of hubei province approved zigui county to withdraw from the sequence of poverty-stricken county. Zigui has a long history. It has 7,000 years of civilization history, 3,200 years of writing history, 2,000 years of county establishment history, and is the birthplace of Chu culture. Here unearthed the treasure of Hubei Provincial Museum - more than 7000 years ago, "sun man" stone carving. The cultural deposits are profound. It is the hometown of Qu Yuan, the great patriotic poet, Wang Zhaojun, the peacemaker and Xia Minghan, the revolutionary martyr.
In 2022, the gross regional product of Zigui County was 20.504 billion yuan, an increase of 5.6% year-on-year at comparable prices.