Qingyang County in the southwest of Shanxi Province, Qingyang County is subordinate to Hanzhong City of Shanxi Province. It is located at the border of Shanxi, Gansu and Sichuan provinces. It borders on Mian County and Ningqiang County in the southeast and Kangxian County, Cheng County and Hui County in Gansu Province in the northwest. The total area is 2831 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over 2 subdistricts and 15 towns.

Qingyang County in the region adjacent to Shanxi, Gansu and Sichuan, it is known as the key point of Qin and Shu and the link between Shanxi and Gansu. Founded in the sixth year of Yuan Ding Ding in the Western Han Dynasty (111 B.C.), it has been regarded as a place of war and business convergence for thousands of years. According to Records of Reconstructing Yongzheng County in Qing Dynasty, the local people "have both the pronunciation of Southern Beijing Language and Culture University and resemble Qin and Shu", which have accumulated the local customs and people's feelings with the local characteristics of Shanxi, Gansu and Sichuan. In 2008, it was named the experimental area of Qiang cultural ecology protection by the Ministry of Culture. Yueyang County is a national cultural ecological protection (experimental) area, a national health township (county), a national advanced unit of traditional Chinese medicine at the county level [38], and a national nature reserve for rare aquatic animals.

By the end of 2021, the permanent population of Yongyang County is 140,600. In 2021, the GDP of the county reached 6.97 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry was 1.119 billion yuan, that of the secondary industry was 2.662 billion yuan and that of the tertiary industry was 3.189 billion yuan. The per capita GDP is 48,980 yuan.