Ludian County, belongs to Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province. It is located in the northeastern part of Yunnan Province, the southern part of Zhaotong City, and the northern bank of the Niulan River. As of October 2022, Ludian County has 2 streets, 9 towns and 2 townships under its jurisdiction, with a land area of 1,484 square kilometers. According to the seventh census data, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the resident population of Ludian County was 398,447 people. Ludian County is the main producing county of waxworms in China, the main producing county of walnuts and high-quality roasted cigarettes in Yunnan Province, and the base of sheep, hogs and cows in Yunnan Province. Famous local specialties include Xiaozhai cherries, Longtoushan chili peppers, and Suoshan green peppers.On May 17, 2020, it officially withdrew from the sequence of poverty-stricken counties.On July 29, 2020, it was named by the National Patriotic Sanitation Campaign Committee as a national sanitary township (county) in the cycle of 2017-2019.In August 2021, it was selected as a key county in the national rural revitalization support. In 2020, the gross regional product of Ludian County will be 8.42 billion yuan, an increase of 2.7%; fixed asset investment above scale will be 7.027 billion yuan, an increase of 12.2%; local public finance budget revenue will be 409 million yuan, and total retail sales of consumer goods will be 3.51 billion yuan; disposable income per capita of urban permanent residents will be 29,392 yuan, an increase of 3.2%, and disposable income per capita of rural permanent residents will be 11,335 yuan, an increase of 6%. per capita disposable income of urban residents was 29,392 yuan, an increase of 3.2%, and that of rural residents was 11,335 yuan, up 6.6%.