Nanjiang County, under the jurisdiction of Bazhong City, Sichuan Province, is located in the northeast edge of Sichuan Province. It covers an area of 3,389 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 1 subdistrict, 29 towns and 2 townships. According to the seventh census data, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, the permanent resident population of Nanjiang County is 467,609. Nanjiang County has a long history, so far built 1500 years of history, the Southern Dynasty Liang Wu Emperor ordinary six years (525 years) to set up the county, because of the "river difficult to be involved in" the name of the difficult river. Western Wei Gong Emperor two years (555 years) to Pandao County. Northern Zhou reestablished difficult river County, Yuan to Yuan twenty years (1283) into the county. Ming Zhengde eleven years (1516), renamed Nanjiang County.

Nanjiang County is the key county of national poverty alleviation and development, the pilot demonstration county of the first batch of national functional zones construction, [6] national ecological protection and construction demonstration area, the national comprehensive pilot county of new urbanization, and the pilot county of provincial power expansion. National intellectual property strong county project pilot county.

In March 2019, it was listed among the first batch of counties under protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics. On April 28, 2019, the People's Government of Sichuan Province decided to withdraw Nanjiang County from the poverty-stricken county list. On July 29, 2020, it was selected into the national Health township (county) naming list for the 2017-2019 cycle.

In 2020, the GDP of Nanjiang County reached 13.982 billion yuan, an increase of 3.1% over the previous year based on comparable prices. Specifically, the value added of the primary industry was 3.133 billion yuan, up by 5.6%; The added value of the secondary industry was 4.396 billion yuan, up by 1.5%; The value added of the tertiary industry was 6.454 billion yuan, up by 3.5%. The tertiary industrial structure ratio is 22.4:31.4:46.2.