Pingnan County, known as Gong Zhou in ancient times, has been a county for nearly 1700 years. It is located in the southeast of Guangxi, northeast of Guigang City, upstream of Xijiang River basin, covering an area of 2983.97 square kilometers. As of midnight on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Pingnan County is 1,104,273.

In the fifth year of his promotion to Ping (361), Cangwu County was set up as Yongping County, while Mengling County was set up as Wucheng County (also recorded as Wuling County), which was the first county set up in southern Ping. In the thirteenth year of Zhenguan (639), Xiping of the province entered Nanping, and then Nanping was renamed Pingnan, which was the beginning of the county construction in the name of Pingnan. As of October 2021, Pingnan County has jurisdiction over 2 subdistricts, 16 towns, 1 township and 2 ethnic townships. Pingnan County is the hometown of Chinese poetry culture, the hometown of Chinese cattle Song opera, the base of Chinese poetry culture inheritance, the hometown of China's Shek Kip Longan, the famous county of Chinese culture, the national grain production county and the national pig transfer county.

In 2021, the GDP of Pingnan County was 32.285 billion yuan, with an increase of 6.5%; Fiscal revenue was 2.527 billion yuan, up 6.2%; The per capita disposable income of urban residents was 36,736 yuan, up by 7.9 percent; The per capita disposable income of rural residents was 18,003 yuan, up by 10.8 percent; Total retail sales of consumer goods reached 7.118 billion yuan, up by 12.0%.