Guangning County, subordinate to Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, is located in the middle reaches of Suijiang River, a tributary of the Beijiang River, in the west of the central part of Guangdong Province, bordering Sihui City and Qingyuan Qingxin District in the east, Gaoyao District and Deqing County in the south, Huaiji County in the west, and Yangshan County, Qingyuan City in the north. It covers an area of 2455 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 1 street and 14 towns. 178 village (neighborhood) committees and 4379 village groups. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, there are 408112 permanent residents in Guangning County.

During the reign of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, the northwest of Sihui County (now Guangning District) was troubled year after year. In the 36th year of Jiajing, he led the Ming army to suppress the insurgency. In the 38th year of Jiajing's reign, Guangning County was set up in four capitals of Sihui County. Taking the meaning of broad peace, Guangning was established. After its establishment, it still belongs to Zhaoqing Prefecture. It has been under the jurisdiction of Zhaoqing since 1988.

Guangning County is a key old area county, the earliest and longest established revolutionary old area in Xijiang District, the "hometown of bamboo" and "hometown of martial arts" in the country, the best green ecological county in the country, the green model county, the food safety demonstration county for catering services, the advanced cultural county, the new rural construction demonstration county, the forest pulp and paper industry demonstration county, the key forest area in Guangdong Province, the first batch of forestry ecological counties and the modern forestry development demonstration county in the Pearl River Delta, It has a provincial paper industry base and a national bamboo forest park. It is a pilot project of fiscal reform in counties directly under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province.

In 2021, the gross regional product will be 17.68 billion yuan, an increase of 8.3% year on year (hereinafter referred to as growth); The total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery was 8.22 billion yuan, up 14%; The per capita disposable income of all residents increased by 9.1%.