Pingshan County, directly under the jurisdiction of Hebei Province (financial system), is subordinate to Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. It is located in the west of Hebei Province, the eastern foot of Taihang Mountains, and the upper reaches of Hutuo River, with an area of 2648 square kilometers. By 2020, Pingshan County has 12 towns and 11 townships under its jurisdiction, which is located in the transitional zone between Fuping uplift and Jingxing depression in the northeast of the Xinhua Xia Taihang Mountain uplift belt, and the terrain is gradually increasing from east to northwest. The rivers in the territory belong to Ziya River System of Haihe River Basin, and belong to the warm temperate semi humid monsoon continental climate. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Pingshan County is 423333.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was the capital of Jin Pu. In the Warring States Period, Zhao set up his own land. Puwu County was established in the Western Han Dynasty, Fangshan County was established in the Sui Dynasty, and Pingshan County was established in the first year of the Zhide era of the Tang Dynasty. Pingshan County is the place where Xibaipo, the holy land of Chinese revolution, is located, two must be born places, the People's Government of North China was founded in Pingshan County, New China came from here, the national tourism demonstration area, the national model city of double support, the revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization area is divided into counties, the counties around Beijing and Tianjin, the open counties around the Bohai Sea, and the pilot counties of small hydropower in China. On September 29, 2018, the Hebei Provincial Government approved Pingshan County to withdraw from the poverty county sequence.

In 2020, the GDP of Pingshan County will be 24.8 billion yuan, with an average annual growth of 5.6%; The general public budget revenue was 2.07 billion yuan, with an average annual growth of 17.8%, 92% higher than that in 2016; Investment in fixed assets increased by 5.3% annually; The industrial added value above designated size increased by 3.9% annually; The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents was 34181 yuan and 11229 yuan respectively, with an average annual growth of 7% and 11.4%.