Tongren City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Province, is located in the northeast of Guizhou Province, the hinterland of Wuling Mountain area, Huaihua City of Hunan Province in the east, Chongqing City in the north, high in the northwest, low in the southeast, the whole territory is dominated by mountains, and most areas belong to the subtropical monsoon humid climate zone. With a total area of 18,003 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts, 4 counties and 4 autonomous counties. By the end of 2021, Tongren has a registered population of 4,493,000 and a permanent resident population of 3,282,600.

History has a long history. The Qin Dynasty for the Guizhou County belly area, the Han Dynasty transferred Wuling County, Shu Han began to have county governance. The Tang Dynasty is divided into Sizhou, Jinzhou, Qianzhou. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, two pacification departments were set up, namely Sizhou and Sinan. In the eleventh year of Yongle of Ming Dynasty, the Pacification departments of Sizhou and Sinan were removed, and four prefectures of Tongren, Sinan, Shiqian and Wuluo were set up in the present territory, which were placed under the jurisdiction of the newly established Guizhou Province. Tongren is a hometown of calligraphy. Six calligraphers, Zhou Mian, Zhou Yixiang, Wang Daohang, Pan Dengyun, Yan Yinliang and Yan Shizhu, emerged in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are 2 national nature reserves, 3 national scenic spots, 9 provincial scenic spots, 1 national Mining Mountain Park and 1 national Karst Geopark. Shanghai-kunming Railway, Shanghai-Kunming
Expressway, Hang-Rui Expressway, Tongda Expressway and Sijian Expressway pass through.

In 2022, Tongren's GDP reached 147.719 billion yuan, an increase of 0.3% over the same period last year.