Huachi County is subordinate to Qingyang City, Gansu Province. It is located in the east of Gansu Province and the northeast of Qingyang City. It borders Zhidan, Wuqi and Dingbian in Shaanxi Province in the northeast and Huanxian, Qingcheng and Heshui in the southwest. It is located between 107 ° 29 '- 108 ° 33' E and 36 ° 07 '- 36 ° 51' N. By 2019, Huachi County had jurisdiction over 111 administrative villages and 646 natural villages in 6 towns, 9 townships and 9 communities, with a total land area of 3791 square kilometers. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Huachi County was 119346.

Huachi County has been awarded "National Science and Technology Progress County", "National Advanced County of Surveying and Mapping Management", "Provincial Model County of Double Support", "Provincial Model County of Greening", "Provincial Civilized County", and "Provincial Health County" by the state and province.

In December 2016, it was listed as the third batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization areas and counties. On February 28, 2020, the People's Government of Gansu Province agreed to withdraw Huachi County from the poverty-stricken county.

In 2020, Huachi County achieved a gross domestic product of 9.678 billion yuan, an increase of 2.1% over the previous year at comparable prices (the same below). Among them, the added value of the primary industry was 612 million yuan, up 4.4%; The added value of the secondary industry was 7.502 billion yuan, up 2.4%; The added value of the tertiary industry was 1.564 billion yuan, down 0.3%. The ratio of the three industrial structures is 6.3:77.5:16.2. The added value of the top ten ecological industries in the county was 1.687 billion yuan, accounting for 17.4% of the county's GDP.