Wutai County is located in the northeastern part of the territory of Shanxi Province, belonging to Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, is a mountainous area of soil and stone, east and Hebei Province to the Taihang ridge as the boundary, with an area of 2,865 square kilometers, jurisdiction over 5 towns, 11 townships, a camelback scenic area, 495 administrative villages. According to the seventh census data, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the resident population of Wutai County is 216,178 people.In January-November 2020, Wutai County completed the gross domestic product (GDP) of 3.57 billion yuan, an increase of -0.9% year-on-year.
Wutai County within the territory of the Wutai Mountains, overlapping mountains, complex terrain, east, by the east, west, center, south, north, five Taiwan, known as the "roof of North China". Ranked in the country's top four Buddhist mountains.
Wutai County is located in the north, the terrain is high, cold climate, known as "North China small Hinganling". The average annual temperature is 5 ℃, January -11 ℃, July 21 ℃. Annual rainfall of 500 millimeters, frost-free period of 90-150 days.
On January 22, 2020, it was named a national garden county by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.On February 27, 2020, Wutai County withdrew from the poverty-stricken counties, as agreed by the Shanxi provincial government.
The official website of Wutai County government released that Ji Xuejun is the vice mayor of Wutai County, in charge of health and sports, medical care, market supervision and other aspects of work.