Pingjiang County, belongs to Yueyang City, Hunan Province. It is located in the northeastern part of Hunan Province, upstream of Miluo River, bordered by Xiushui County and Tonggu County in the east, Miluo City in the west, Liuyang City and Changsha County in the south, and Tongcheng County and Yueyang County in the north, with a total area of 4,125 square kilometers. As of October 2022, Pingjiang County has 2 streets, 18 towns, and 5 townships under its jurisdiction.In 2022, Pingjiang County had a household population of 1,107,900 people and a resident population of 939,200 people.
In 1986, Pingjiang County belonged to Yueyang City. It is a national health county, national leisure agriculture and rural tourism demonstration county, revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization piece area county, close-knit county medical and health community construction pilot county, four good rural road national demonstration county. It is one of the four major generals' counties in China.In 2019, the People's Government of Hunan Province approved Pingjiang County to withdraw from the sequence of poverty-stricken counties.
In 2022, the gross regional product of Pingjiang County will be 38.542 billion yuan, an increase of 6.0%; of which the added value of the primary industry will be 6.276 billion yuan, the added value of the secondary industry will be 14.372 billion yuan; the added value of the tertiary industry will be 17.894 billion yuan, and the structural ratio of the three industries will be 16.3:37.3:46.4.