Dongchuan District, belonging to Kunming, Yunnan Province, is located in the northeastern part of Yunnan Province and the northernmost part of Kunming, 150 kilometers away from Kunming, east of Qujing City, Yunnan Province, Huize County, south of Kunming City, Kunming, Xundian County, west of Kunming City, Luquan County, north of Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, Qiaojia County, and Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, Haili City, and Huidong County, separated by the Jinsha River, with a total area of 1,858.79 square kilometers. Dongchuan District has 1 street, 6 towns and 1 township under its jurisdiction. According to the seventh census data, as of zero hour on November 1, 2020, the resident population of Dongchuan District is 260,744 people.
Dongchuan District is located in the northern edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with the highest altitude of 4344.1 meters and the lowest altitude of 695 meters, with a height difference of 3649.1 meters. Dongchuan District is rich in mineral resources, one of China's six copper production base, Sedan Chair Snow Mountain is known as "the first mountain in Yunnan", Xiaojiang River Basin for the world's typical torrential mudslide area known as "mudslide of the natural museum", the two sides of the Xiaojiang River is the largest in Kunming. The banks of Xiaojiang River are the largest tropical crop area in Kunming.
In March 2009, Dongchuan District was identified by the State Council as the second batch of 32 resource-exhausted cities. in April 2019, the People's Government of Yunnan Province decided that Dongchuan District would withdraw from the sequence of poverty-stricken counties. on February 2, 2019, Dongchuan District was recognized as an advanced unit of grass-roots traditional Chinese medicine work at the county level by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. in August 2021, Dongchuan District was selected as a key county in the national rural revitalization. Gross regional product of 12.5 billion yuan, an increase of 4% year-on-year, the three industrial structure ratio adjusted to 8:26:66.
