Pinghu City, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, administered by Jiaxing City, is located in the northern part of Zhejiang Province, at the eastern end of the Hangzhou-Jiaxing-Huzhou Plain, with Hangzhou Bay to the south, Jinshan District of Shanghai in the northeast, Nanhu District of Jiaxing City in the west, Haiyan County in the southwest, and Jiashan County in the northwest, and has a total area of 554.4 square kilometers. As of October 2021, Pinghu City has 3 streets and 6 towns under its jurisdiction. The Municipal People's Government is located at No. 380, Shengli Road, Danghu Street.At the end of 2022, Pinghu City had a resident population of 688,000, with an urbanization rate of 68.2%.
Pinghu, because of its land in the Han Dynasty when it was sunken for the Danghu, "and then the soil vein graves up, the sunken gradually flat, so the name Pinghu". Ming, analysis of Haiyan County, the northeastern territory of Pinghu County. 1983, the abolition of Jiaxing region, Pinghu County belongs to Jiaxing City. 1991, the abolition of Pinghu County, the establishment of Pinghu City. Pinghu is a national civilized city and the first pilot of Zhejiang High-quality Development and Construction of Common Wealth Demonstration Zone.
In 2023, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Pinghu City for the first time stepped on the 100 billion yuan stage, totaling 100.866 billion yuan, with a comparable growth rate of 6%.