Gaotang County, belonging to Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, is located in the northwest of Shandong Province and the northeast of Liaocheng City. The total area is 949 square kilometers. It is bordered by Yucheng City and Qihe County in Dezhou City to the east, Linqing City and Xazin County in Dezhou City to the west, Chiping District to the south, and Pingyuan County in Dezhou City to the north. As of October 2022, Gaotang County has 3 streets and 9 towns under its jurisdiction.In 2022, Gaotang County had a total population of 504,800, with 449,100 permanent residents.
In 1998, it belonged to Liaocheng City. Gaotang is a national garden county, national health county, national export food and agricultural products quality and safety demonstration zone, the third batch of the country to take the lead in basically realizing the whole process of mechanization of the production of major crops demonstration counties, national intellectual property rights in the county project pilot counties.
In 2022, the Gross Regional Product of Gaotang County will be 18.018 billion yuan, an increase of 5.0% over the previous year. By industry, the added value of primary industry is 2.978 billion yuan, the added value of secondary industry is 6.953 billion yuan; the added value of tertiary industry is 8.086 billion yuan, and the structure of the three industries is adjusted to 16.5:38.6:44.9.