Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County, belonging to Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, is located in the northwest of Sichuan Basin, between latitude 31°33'17''~32°13'17''N and longitude 103°45'02''~104°43'12''E. It has a total area of 3,084 square kilometers. It is connected to Jiangyou City in the east, Anzhou District in the south, Mao County in the west, and Songpan and Pingwu Counties in the north, with a total area of 3,084 square kilometers. As of the end of 2022, Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County had a resident population of 178,900. As of January 2023, Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County has jurisdiction over 9 towns, 10 townships, 202 villages and 33 community neighborhood committees. The county people's government is located at No. 23, Yunpan North Road, Yongchang Town.
Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County, with the ancient name of "Shiquan", is the birthplace of Dayu, the founder of China, and became the only Qiang Autonomous County in China in 2003 with the approval of the State Council. Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County has a rich cultural heritage and branding, with a mixture of Yu and Qiang cultures, red culture, anti-earthquake culture and gratitude culture, and is the hometown of China's Dayu culture, the hometown of China's Qiang embroidery, and a cross-strait Dayu cultural exchange base.
Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County has two national and one provincial nature reserves and one national forest park, and is a national key ecological function area, a national ecological civilization construction demonstration county, and a national long-term scientific research base for the conservation biology of endangered wildlife in Minshan Mountain. It has one national 5A level (Beichuan Qiang City Tourism Zone), four national 4A level (Xixiang Jiu Huang Mountain, Valley of Medicine King, Beichuan Vistas Agricultural Leisure Tourism Zone, and Xunlong Mountain) tourism scenic spots, etc. The county has successfully created 13 national-level rural tourism brands and 11 provincial-level tourism brands, and won 2 world-level, 36 national-level and 145 provincial-level cultural and tourism brands, and its self-developed specialty tourism commodities have won 36 national and provincial authoritative awards. The special tourism commodities independently developed have won 36 national and provincial authoritative awards.
In 2022, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County will be 9.447 billion yuan, an increase of 4.6% over the previous year.