Wuqi County, subordinate to Yan 'an City of Shanxi Province, is located in the northwest of Yan 'an City, adjacent to Dingbian County in the northwest, Zhidan County in the southeast, Jingbian County in the northeast and Huachi County in Gansu Province in the southwest. Landform loess plateau beam hilly gully region, elevation between 1233-1809 meters. Within the territory of Wuding River and Beiluo River basin, the main structure of the terrain can be summarized as "eight rivers, two rivers and two mountains area". Since 1998, the policy of returning farmland to forest has been implemented, and the forest and grass coverage rate has reached 49.6 percent. According to the seventh census, the permanent population of Wuqi County was 146,167 as of midnight on November 1, 2020.

By 2022, Wuqi County has jurisdiction over 1 subdistrict and 8 towns. There are 91 administrative villages and 8 urban communities, [32] with a total area of 3,791.5 square kilometers. Oil industry is an important pillar of economic development in Wuqi County.

In 2020, the GDP of Wuqi County reached 15.01 billion yuan, a decrease of 2.6%; investment in fixed assets increased by 13.2%; local fiscal revenue reached 1.96 billion yuan, an increase of 17.2%; total retail sales of consumer goods reached 1.95 billion yuan, an increase of 0.3%; The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents was 38,165 yuan and 13,045 yuan respectively, up by 5.1% and 8.5%.

It has been awarded "Top 100 Counties of Scientific Development of small and medium-sized Cities in China", "Top 100 Counties of Small and medium-sized Cities with the most Regional Driving Force in China", "Top 100 of All-round well-off Growth in China", "Top 100 of Investment Potential in Western China" and "Strong County of Economic Development in Western China".

In October 2018, it was selected as one of the top 100 counties and cities with investment potential in 2018. In 2018, the state health county (township) was reconfirmed. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of counties under the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics. The top 100 counties and cities in Western China.