Qingtian County is located in the southeast of Zhejiang Province, the middle and lower reaches of Oujiang River, the west of Wenzhou and the southeast of Lishui. It borders Wenzhou in the east, Yongjia in the south, Rui'an and Wencheng in the south, Jingning She Autonomous County in the west, and Jinyun in the north. The total area of the county is 2493 square kilometers, known as "nine mountains, half water, and half farmland". It is called "Qingtian, the Stone Capital of China and the World". Qingtian has a long history and is reputed as "the hometown of stone carving, overseas Chinese and celebrities". It is also the first county in terms of housing prices, top ten counties in China's finance, foreign exchange and per capita deposits. Qingtian also owns the world agricultural heritage - Qingtian rice-fish symbiosis system. Qingtian stone is the first of the four major stones, Nuwa's stone for mending the sky, and Fengmenqing is the first of the three seals.

In 2013, Qingtian deeply implemented the development strategy of "Deepening radiation to Wenzhou, building Qingtian in the world, and building a happy hometown of overseas Chinese", and closely combined with the actual situation, painted a magnificent new scene of "rich and beautiful, harmonious and healthy" of the hometown of overseas Chinese. According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Qingtian County is 509053.

In July 2019, Qingtian County won the title of the founding area of "China's natural oxygen bar" in 2019. In 2020, the GDP of Qingtian County will be 24.913 billion yuan, an increase of 2.5% over the previous year.