Guidong County, under the jurisdiction of Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, is located in the southeast border of Hunan Province, the middle part of Luoxiao Mountains, Xiangjiang River tributary Lei Water upstream, east and Jiangxi Province Shanghu County, Chongyi County, Suichuan County, south Rucheng County, west Zixing City, Zhuzhou City, northwest Yanling County. With a total area of 1451.56 square kilometers, Guidong County has jurisdiction over 11 towns, 1 national nature reserve and 1 national forest park. By the end of 2020, Guidong County has a permanent population of 212,300. According to the seventh census, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Guidong County was 160,956.

Guidong County is a kind of old revolutionary base area, the birthplace of the mass line of the Party, the promulgation of the three disciplines and eight points of attention, the first place of the Long March of the Red Army, is a typical old revolutionary base area, the border area of Hunan and Jiangxi, deep mountains and forests, poor areas.

In 2020, the GDP of Guidong County reached 4.615 billion yuan, and the public financial revenue was 383 million yuan.