Huaning County, which belongs to Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, is located in the southern margin of the lake basin of the middle Yunnan Plateau, and belongs to the Zhongshan type landform. It is connected to Mirek City in the east, Jianshui County in the south, Tonghai County and Jiangchuan District in the west, and Chengjiang City and Yiliang County in the north. It is 34 kilometers wide from east to west and 59 kilometers long from north to south, with a total area of 1313 square kilometers. The mountainous area accounts for 89% of the total area. It is located between 23°59 'and 24°34' north and 102°49 'and 103°09' east. According to the seventh census, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Huaning county was 190,425.

Huaning County because of the territory of Huagai Mountain, Ningshou Temple named. The territory of the terrain is high northwest, low southeast, narrow east-west terrain, long north-south, mountains and rolling mountains, mountains, hills, basins, valleys intermixed, was "two ridges clip two trough" terrain, the larger basin has Ningzhou dam and Panxi dam. The main rivers are Nanpan River, Qinglong River, Haikou River, Longdong River and Huaxi River, all belong to the Pearl River system.

Huaning County is the core city of the "three Lakes" ecological urban agglomeration of Fuxian Lake, Xingyun Lake and Qilu Lake, as well as an important node of the Kunhe River Line economic belt. In 2021, the GDP of Huaning County was 13.30 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 8.7%. Huaning County is a famous ceramic kiln farm in Yunnan, the largest wind power equipment manufacturing base with the most complete industrial chain in Yunnan, and the largest tobacco leaf base in Yuxi. It has successively won the titles of National Garden County, National Health County, National Ecological Demonstration Zone, National Demonstration County of "Four Good Rural Road" and National Demonstration County of Ecological Civilization Construction.