Ritu County (Tibetan: རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་།, English: Rutog County), meaning "under the gun-fork bracketed mountains". Belongs to the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China Ali area. Located in western Tibet, northwest of the Ali region, is one of the border counties, is located in the east longitude 78 ° 7 ′ - 82 ° 4 ′, latitude 32 ° 7 ′ - 35 ° 4 ′ between the Karakoram Mountains and the Gangdis Mountain branch across the territory, known as "the roof of the world roof ". The average altitude of the county is about 4500 meters, and the highest altitude is 6800 meters.
County People's Government in Ritu Town, under the jurisdiction of 1 town, 4 townships, an area of 77,120,000 square kilometers, accounting for about 1/15 of the total land area of the entire autonomous region, the existing arable land area of 8614.9 acres, an area of 70,724,000 acres of pastureland, 7,940,000 acres of water area, arable land area of 0.73 million acres. It is a border county with pastoralism as the main industry and half agriculture and half animal husbandry. According to the seventh census data, as of zero hour on November 1, 2020, the county's resident population was 11,167 people.
Ritu County is a semi-agricultural and semi-herding county. The proportion of pastoralism is large, and agricultural production is very limited. Local specialties mainly include ghee, leather sheets, wool, cow and cashmere, cleavers, and oblique-toothed naked carp.On February 6, 2019, the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) decided that Ritu County should withdraw from the poverty-stricken counties.In October 2020, the county was rated as the National Model City (County) of Shuangbao.
In 2019, the gross regional product of Ritu County is 430.97 million yuan, the added value of the primary industry is 83.37 million yuan, the added value of the secondary industry is 86.57 million yuan, the revenue of the general public budget is 48.5 million yuan, and the expenditure of the general public budget is 100.406 million yuan.