Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County is under the jurisdiction of Chongqing. Located on the south bank of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the east of Chongqing, and the heart of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, it is one of the Tujia habitat, which is mainly composed of the ancient Ba people and integrated with other nationalities. It borders Lichuan City, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province in the east, Pengshui Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing in the south, Fengdu County, Chongqing in the southwest, Zhongxian County, Chongqing in the northwest, and Wanzhou District, Chongqing in the north. The total area is 3014 square kilometers. By June 2020, Shizhu County has jurisdiction over 3 streets, 17 towns and 13 townships. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County was 389001.

Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County is a national tourism demonstration area, a national garden county, a national health county, a national agricultural comprehensive standardization demonstration county, a pilot county for the construction of a compact county medical and health community, a list of counties for the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics (the first batch), a national e-commerce comprehensive demonstration county for rural areas, a "four good rural roads" demonstration county, and a national forest health base (the first batch) Deepen the reform of rural road management and maintenance system in pilot areas. In April 2019, the Chongqing Municipal Government approved Shizhu County to withdraw from the poverty line.

In 2021, Shizhu County will achieve a gross regional product of 18.654 billion yuan, an increase of 7.8% over the previous year and an average increase of 5.1% in two years. By industry, the added value of the primary industry was 3.386 billion yuan, up 8.7%; The added value of the secondary industry was 4.325 billion yuan, up 4.7%; The added value of the tertiary industry was 10.943 billion yuan, up 8.8%. The ratio of the three industrial structures is 18.1:23.2:58.7.