Xinning County, located in the southwest of Hunan Province, is located between 110°18 '-- 110°28' east longitude and 26°15 '-- 26°55' north latitude, with a total area of 2812 square kilometers. It is adjacent to Dongan County in the east, Chengbu Miao Autonomous County in the west, Quanzhou County and Ziyuan County in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the south, and Wugang City and Shaoyang County in the north. The terrain is mainly mountainous and hilly, belonging to the subtropical monsoon humid climate zone. As of 2018, Xinning County has jurisdiction over eight towns and eight townships. According to the seventh census, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Xinning county was 513,777.

Xinning County is one of Hunan's timber forest, pit wood forest, rapid growth and high yield forest, Nan bamboo, oil Tong production base counties, is also one of the national fixed lacquer, ash base counties. There are Shun Huang, Ziyun, Wanfeng 3 provincial nature reserves. On February 29, 2020, the People's Government of Hunan Province agreed to remove Xinning County from the poverty-stricken county. On October 9, 2020, it was awarded the fourth batch of national ecological civilization Construction demonstration City and county title by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. In November 2020, it was awarded as the 10th Hunan Model County (city) of supporting the army and supporting the government and loving the people.

In 2020, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Xinning County reached 11.6411 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 2.7%