Gucheng County, subordinate to Xiangyang City of Hubei Province, is located in the northwest of Hubei Province, the southeast foot of Wudang Mountains, the southwest bank of the middle reaches of the Han River, with a total area of 2553 square kilometers. As of June 2020, Gucheng County has jurisdiction over 9 towns and 1 township. According to the seventh census, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, Gucheng County had a permanent population of 483,293.

Qin, set up Zhuyang County. In November 2010, he was transferred to Xiangyang. Qinling Mountains, Dabashan Shandong Yanyu vein and Jianghan plain border zone, the overall terrain decreased from southwest to northeast. North subtropical monsoon climate zone, for evergreen broad-leaved mixed forest natural belt.

Gucheng County is a national model city of double support, a national health county, a sub-county for the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics, and a demonstration county of food safety in Hubei Province. On April 29, 2019, the Hubei Provincial government approved Gucheng County to withdraw from the list of poverty-stricken counties.

In 2020, the GDP of Gucheng County reached 38.586 billion yuan, which was 6.5 percent lower than the previous year at comparable prices. The value added of the primary industry was 4.718 billion yuan, up 2.6% over the previous year; The added value of the secondary industry reached 20.383 billion yuan, down by 7.1% over the previous year; The added value of the tertiary industry was 13.785 billion yuan, down 8.4 percent from the previous year.