Chongyang County, located in the southern part of Hubei Province, at the junction of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, is an important part of Wuhan city Circle. It spans between 29°12 '~ 29°41' north latitude and 113°43 '~ 114°21' east longitude. It borders Tongshan in the east, Tongcheng and Xiushui in Jiangxi Province in the south, Tongcheng and Linxiang in Hunan Province in the west, and Chibi and Xian 'an in the north. In 2021, Chongyang County has jurisdiction over 8 towns and 4 townships. It covers an area of 1,968 square kilometers, equivalent to 2.952 million mu, accounting for 1.06% of the total area of the province and 19.96% of the total area of the city. County governance in the day town. Chongyang County was named "the Hometown of Chinese Folk Art" by the Ministry of Culture in 2001. In 2008, Chongyang Violin Opera was named the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
According to the seventh census data, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, Chongyang County has a permanent population of 427,130.

In October 2017, it was named the National garden County by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. On March 6, 2019, Chongyang County was listed in the Notice issued by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage on the Publication of the List of Counties for the Protection and Utilization of Revolutionary Cultural Relics (the First Batch) by the Ministry of Publicity, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. On April 29, 2019, the People's Government of Hubei Province decided to withdraw Chongyang County from poverty.

In November 2019, Chongyang County was named as the national model county of "Four Good Rural Roads". On October 9, 2020, it was awarded the fourth batch of national ecological civilization Construction demonstration City and county title by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
In 2020, the GDP of Chongyang County reached 14.860 billion yuan (current price), which decreased by 5.2% year on year at comparable prices. The added value of the primary industry was 3.144 billion yuan, up by 1.9% year on year; The added value of the secondary industry was 4.354 billion yuan, down 11.4% year on year; The industrial added value was 3.142 billion yuan, down by 10.5% year on year; The added value of the tertiary industry was 7.362 billion yuan, down 3.6 percent year on year. The proportion of the tertiary industrial structure has been adjusted from 18.34:32.69:48.97 in 2019 to 21.16:29.30:49.54.