Province and the middle and lower reaches of the Minjiang River, with a total area of 1494 square kilometers, and has jurisdiction over 11 towns and 5 townships. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on May 21, 2021, the permanent resident population of Minqing County was 256181.

In the first year of Liang Qianhua's reign in the Five Dynasties (911), the county was set up, and Xu General, the first number one scholar in the Ming Dynasty, emerged, and Chen Xiangdao, a neo-confucianist and Chen Yang, a musician who was also known as "Mr. Mei Xi Er Chen", Bai Yuchan, a poet, calligrapher and painter, and the fifth ancestor of the Taoist sect of Nanzong, Huang Naishang, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader in modern times, and Wu Mengchao, a famous contemporary hepatobiliary expert, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and winner of the National Highest Science and Technology Award, and other celebrities.

From 2018 to 2021, it won the title of "Top Ten Counties of County Economic Development in Fujian Province" for four consecutive years.

From January to December in 2020, Minqing County's GDP reached 34488.19 million yuan, up 6.2% year on year.