Yunxi County, under the Shiyan City of Hubei Province. It is located in the northwestern border of Hubei, on the north bank of the middle and upper reaches of the Han River, near the Qinling Mountains in the north and the Han River in the south. It is called "the throat of Qin and the gateway of Chu". It borders Yunyang District in the east and southeast, Shangnan County of Shaanxi Province in the northeast, Shanyang County in the north, Zhen 'an County in the northwest, Xunyang County in the southwest, and Baihe County in the south. It is 115 kilometers long from east to west, 55 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 3509 square kilometers.

Ming Chenghua twelve years (1476), Yunxi County, Yunxi County. Yunxi was liberated in November 1947, making it the earliest liberated county in Hubei Province. In 1987, The State Council confirmed Yunxi as an old revolutionary base area county; In 2001, it was listed in the national new round of poverty alleviation and development key county. In October 2017, it was named the National Garden County by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. In April 2020, with the approval of Hubei Provincial People's Government, it was removed from the list of poverty-stricken counties.

In 2021, the GDP of Yunxi County reached 11.003 billion yuan, an increase of 13.4%. The added value of the primary industry was 2.713 billion yuan, and that of the secondary industry was 2.459 billion yuan; The added value of the tertiary industry was 5.831 billion yuan, up by 11.0%.