Anshun, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Province, is located in the central and western part of Guizhou Province, 90 kilometers away from Guiyang, the provincial capital. With a total area of 9,267 square kilometers, it is located in the watershed of Wujiang River basin of Yangtze River system and Beipan River basin of Pearl River System. It is a typical karst landform concentration area in the world. By the end of 2021, Anshun had a permanent population of 2,458,800.

Known as "Pu Township of China", "Town of Tunpu Culture", "Town of Batik" and "Show of the West", Anshun is an excellent tourism city in China, A national Class A tourism open city, the only reform pilot zone of "Deepening Reform, Promoting Co-prosperity of various economic Components and Accelerating Development", and a national high-tech industrial base for civil aviation industry. Guizhou provincial historical and cultural city, is "Guizhou accelerated development of Special economic zone", 2009 China's top ten characteristic leisure cities, the world karst scenery tourism preferred area, one of the six national golden tourism hot lines and western Guizhou tourism center. The State Council approved the eighth national New area GUI 'an New Area is the main component.

Anshun has been listed as one of the first batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization. In June 2017, Anshun was named a National Health City. In October 2017, it was named a national garden city by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. In October 2020, it was rated as the national model city (county) of double support. In 2021, the GDP of Anshun reached 107.891 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 9%.