Asbestos County, belonging to Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, the county is located in the eastern part of the Hengduan Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau, the middle reaches of the Dadu River, the southwestern part of Ya'an City, with the geographic coordinates of 101°55′-102°34′East Longitude and 28°51′-29°32′North Latitude, Asbestos County has a total area of 2,678 square kilometers, and belongs to the mid-latitude sub-tropical monsoon climate as the It is a mountainous climate with mid-latitude subtropical monsoon climate, with concentrated summer rains, more night rains, fewer storms, and no fall rains. It now has 3 townships and 8 townships (including 5 ethnic minority townships) and 1 street; 51 villages, 10 residents' committees, 284 villagers' groups, and 64 residents' groups, and the county government is stationed in the Cotton City Street. According to the seventh census data, as of zero hour on November 1, 2020, the resident population of Asbestos County is 114,116 people.
Qing Dynasty Daoguang thirteen years (1833), land reclassification, the fourteen plugs of land set Shunhe Township, the end of the Qing Dynasty "preparatory constitutional", Shunhe since a self-governing township, the north bank of all the Shunhe Township belongs to the land. The Republic of China three years (1914), changed the Qingxi County for Hanyuan County, belongs to the Hanyuan County South Shunhe Township. 1952 May 9, the State Council approved the formal establishment of asbestos county. 1956 January, the Wanggangping from Hanyuan County to asbestos county, after the county boundaries are fixed. 2013 was named by the provincial government of the province's "three rural" work advanced county, "Sichuan Biogas County". The specialties of Asbestos County include chestnuts, walnuts, oranges, and valuable medicines such as tianma, bei mou, rhubarb, and cordyceps. There are rare animals such as giant pandas, red pandas, musk, leopards and bears under the protection of the state, and it has the reputation of "the hometown of giant panda release". In September 2016, Asbestos County was included in the National Key Ecological Functional Area, and in July 2020, it was re-recognized by the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee as the "2019 National Health Townships (County Towns)".
In 2023, Asbestos County realized a gross regional product of 13.559 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.5% at comparable prices.