Shangdu County is located in the central part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, northeast of Ulanqab City. It has jurisdiction over 6 towns and 4 townships with a total area of 4,353 square kilometers. The average altitude is more than 1,400 meters, and the annual rainfall is about 300 millimeters. The territory is rich in resources, sufficient energy and convenient transportation. There are more than 20 kinds of proven mineral resources, among which quartz stone, limestone, fluorite, diatomite, white mud, kaolin, feldspar, carbon dioxide gas fields and other reserves are large. Through geological exploration, gold, silver, lead zinc and other metal minerals have a good development prospect. Abundant wind and light resources, the development of wind power, photovoltaic power generation industry advantages; The county has a high and low all levels of power network, sufficient power supply; Qitai Town, the seat of the county government, is the seventh post of "Zhangku Avenue" (Zhangjiakou -- Ulan Bator, Mongolia), 180 kilometers away from Zhangjiakou, 380 kilometers away from Beijing, 220 kilometers away from Hohhot, 280 kilometers away from Erenhot. It is an important transportation hub connecting Mongolia in the north and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in the east. It is also a key node of the three provinces in Northeast China. According to the seventh census, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Shangdu County was 173,926.

In 2019, it was listed as the second batch of national agricultural product quality safety county. In 2019, the GDP of Shangdu County reached 5.852 billion yuan, an increase of 4.5 percent. In March 2020, the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region agreed to remove Shangdu County from the poverty-stricken flag county list after research. On August 2, 2021, with the approval of the Leading Group for Rural Affairs of the CPC Central Committee, Shangdu County of Ulanqab was designated as the national key Rural revitalization Banner County