Keping County, the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, the Han people called Keping for the Kelepin, Uyghur said Kerping, until 1903 when the establishment of the sub-defense of the county chancellor was set up as Keping, used until now. Keping, legend for "flood" or "ground nest" meaning. Keping County is located in the south of Xinjiang, Aksu region, the westernmost, in the southern foothills of the Altag Mountains, a tributary of the Tianshan Mountains, the northern edge of the Tarim Basin. Administrative area of 8912 square kilometers, of which 6393 square kilometers of mountainous areas, accounting for 53% of the total area of the county. The county governs one town and four townships, and at the end of 2022, the household population of Keping County was 56,000 people. On January 24, 2020, the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region agreed that Keping County should withdraw from the sequence of poverty-stricken counties.