Wuding County is subordinate to Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province. It is located in the northeast of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, adjacent to Luquan County of Kunming City in the east, and adjacent to Lufeng and Fumin in the south. The national expressway G5 Kunming-Wuhan Expressway passes through the border. The county covers an area of 3322 square kilometers and governs 11 townships, 135 villagers (community residents) committees and 1572 villagers (community residents) groups. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Wuding County was 239059.

Wuding, the Lion Mountain with the reputation of "the first mountain in the southwest"; There is the Great Rift Valley of Self-clothing, which can be called "the scar of the earth". On September 25, 2018, it was awarded the honorary title of "2018 Comprehensive Demonstration County of E-commerce in Rural Areas" by the Ministry of Commerce. On May 17, 2020, it officially withdrew from the poverty county sequence. In August 2021, it was selected as the national key county for rural revitalization.

In 2020, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Wuding County reached 10836.6 million yuan, an increase of 6.7% over the previous year at comparable prices. Among them, the added value of the primary industry was 263.166 million yuan, an increase of 5.9%, driving economic growth by 1.3 percentage points; The added value of the secondary industry was 3479.82 million yuan, an increase of 12.8%, driving economic growth by 4.5 percentage points; The added value of the tertiary industry was 472.512 million yuan, up 2.0%, driving economic growth by 0.9 percentage points. The contribution rates of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries to GDP growth were 19.4%, 67.6% and 13% respectively.