Wuxi County is located in the northeast of Chongqing, at the southern foot of the east section of the Daba Mountains, and is a typical mountainous agricultural county. Wuxi County is located at the junction of Chongqing, Shaanxi and Hubei provinces, bordering Shennongjia Forest Region and Zhuxi County in Hubei Province in the east, Fengjie County and Wushan County in the south, Kaizhou District and Yunyang County in the west, and Chengkou County and Zhenping County in Shaanxi Province in the north. By 2017, Wuxi County has a total area of 4030 square kilometers. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, there are 388600 permanent residents in Wuxi County.

In 2020, the gross regional product of Wuxi County will reach 11017.08 million yuan, an increase of 2.7% over the previous year. In 2021, Wuxi County will achieve a GDP of 12083.29 million yuan, an increase of 6.7% over the previous year.

Wuxi County is a national green model county, and has won the honorary titles of "Green Chinese Medicine Export Base", "National Key Konjac Planting Base County", "China's Green Ecological Potato Town", "2011 China's Reform Year County", "2019 National Health County" and so on.