Pingyuan County, belonging to Dezhou City, Shandong Province, is located in the northwest of Shandong Province and the south of Dezhou. It borders Linyi and Yucheng to the east and southeast, Wucheng and Xazin to the west and southwest, Gaotang to the south, and Deucheng and Lingsheng districts to the north, with a total area of 1,047 square kilometers. As of the end of 2022, the resident population was 417,500, and as of June 2023, Plain County has 3 streets, 8 towns, and 1 township under its jurisdiction, with the county government stationed at 166 Ping'an East Street.
Plain County has a long history and is one of the 15 ancient counties in Shandong Province that have not changed their names in 2000 years. For more than 2,200 years, it has either belonged to the Plain Country, the Plain County, the Hebei Province, the Jinan Province, or the Dezhou Prefecture, and the name of the county has remained unchanged to this day. Three Kingdoms period of Liu Bei served as the county magistrate of Pingyuan, Liu Guanzhang Peach Orchard story took place here, is the Three Kingdoms period of divination and calculator tube chariot, the Qing Dynasty poet Dong Yuandu, and contemporary mathematician Zhang Hongji, philosopher Ren Jigai, party building party history expert Zhang Quanjing, the late master of Chinese literature Ren Jigai, famous writer Deng Youmei and a number of literati hometown.
Plain County has been awarded the title of National Advanced County in Grain Production, National Advanced County in Ecological Civilization, National Best City Management People's Satisfaction Award, etc., and has successfully created a provincial garden city, civilized city and sanitary city. Plain County is in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Cooperative Development Area, the Bohai Economic Circle, the provincial capital city cluster economic circle, the province's western economic uplift belt "one area, two circles and one belt" four regional strategic superposition area, with the "East leads to the West and South, South integration and North," the geographic advantages, with the It has "six vertical and three horizontal" backbone rivers and 1100 km water transmission and distribution network, and has built Xiangjiahe Reservoir and Longmen Reservoir with a total capacity of 36.99 million cubic meters, which can store more than 100 million cubic meters of water supply annually.
In 2022, Plain County will realize a gross regional product of 28.12 billion yuan, an increase of 5.1%. In terms of sub-industry, the added value of primary industry is 5.170 billion yuan, an increase of 4.5%; the added value of secondary industry is 9.650 billion yuan, an increase of 5.4%; and the added value of tertiary industry is 13.303 billion yuan, an increase of 5.0%. The structure of the three industries was adjusted to 18.4:34.3:47.3.
