Xingshan County belongs to Yichang City of Hubei Province. Because of "all the mountains, the county rose in the mountains" named. Xingshan County covers an area of 2328 square kilometers, Xingshan County has jurisdiction over 6 towns and 2 townships, 91 villages (houses), 5 communities, the county government in Gufu Town. According to the seventh census data, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, Xingshan County has a permanent population of 153,886.

Xingshan County is the hometown of Wang Zhaojun, the imperial concubine of Han Dynasty. It was founded in the third year of Yongan of Emperor Wu Jing (260 years). In August 1949, Xingshan County belongs to the Yichang area of Hubei Province. On July 6, 1992, this county was put under the jurisdiction of Yichang City. County geomorphic structure for "eight half mountains a field", per capita cultivated land of 1.08 mu. There are water energy, mineral resources, lint, tourism four natural resources. Shanghai-rongbei Yiba Expressway and Shi-Yiba Railway all pass through the county. Xingshan Station of Zheng-Wan high-speed Railway is set up here. Xingshan General Airport is under planning and construction.

In 2020, the county achieved a GDP of 12.398 billion yuan, calculated at comparable prices, year-on-year -6.8%. Among them, the added value of the primary industry was 1.537 billion yuan, up 2.4% year on year; The added value of the secondary industry was 5.034 billion yuan, year-on-year -10.1%; The added value of the tertiary industry was 5.827 billion yuan, up 5.7 percent year on year. The tertiary industrial structure changed from 10.62:43.79:45.59 in the previous year to 12.4:40.6:47.0. The total fiscal revenue of the year was 675.25 million yuan, year-on-year -42.4%; Local public finance budget revenue of 424.28 million yuan, year-on-year -49%. Of this total, the tax revenue was 343.69 million yuan, -31.2% year-on-year, and the budgetary expenditure of local public finance was 269.395 million yuan, -3.2% year-on-year. In 2018, the state health county (township) was reconfirmed. On April 29, 2019, the People's Government of Hubei Province decided to remove Xingshan County from the poverty-stricken county.