Qidong County, Hengyang City of Hunan Province, is located in the southwest of Hengyang City, the Xiangjiang River in the middle of the north bank, east-west narrow, north high south low, a total area of 1872 square kilometers. As of March 2022, Qidong County has jurisdiction over 4 subdistricts, 17 towns, 3 townships and 1 administrative office, with a total of 368 administrative villages (community neighborhood committees). According to the seventh census, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Qidong County was 766,920.

Qidong County is the famous "Hometown of Chinese yellow flowers", "Hometown of generals", "Hometown of black metal", and also the only "hometown of Chinese folk art" in Hunan Province. It is the "provincial civilized County" and the "Top Ten counties of urban and rural Environmental sanitation in the Province".

Qi east ancient Yang Yue land, spring and autumn belongs to the state of Chu. Qi Opera and fishing drum have been inherited for more than 400 years, and Qi Opera is one of the outstanding operas in China. Jiang Wan, minister of Shu of The Three Kingdoms, Ning Liang and Chen Jian of Ming Dynasty, Chen Dashou of Qing Court, Wang Ruchi of Red Army, Cao Yan of revolution, Guan Chufei, a famous painter, were all born there. At present, there are 14 general Qi Dongji, 2 academicians, 7 provincial and ministerial level leaders, 78 department level leaders, more than 1300 department level leaders.

Qidong according to Xianggui traffic, choke Hengyang city southwest gateway, unique traffic location advantages, known as "Xianggui throat" said. Xianggui railway, Loudi - Hengyang highway, Quanzhou - Nanning highway, Qi Yong highway through the Qidong territory, another Qidong port to Yang port area.

In 2021, the GDP of Qidong County was 33.556 billion yuan, an increase of 8.4%.