Xintai, a county level city in Shandong Province, administered by Tai 'an City, located in the middle of Shandong Province, is a pilot county for building a modern big city in Shandong Province. Located in the middle of the Taiyi Mountains, it belongs to the warm temperate continental monsoon climate zone. Jurisdiction over 3 streets, 17 towns and 1 township, the total area of 1946 square kilometers. According to the seventh National census, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, Xintai's permanent population was 1,272,698.

Human beings existed in Xintai in the Paleolithic Age. The unearthed tooth fossils of Homo sapiens at Wuzhutai prove that this place was once one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation. There are three state-owned ecological public welfare forest farms in Lianhua Mountain, Taiping Mountain and Tumen. Lianhua Mountain is a world geological park, a national 4A scenic spot and a national forest park. The road traffic within the territory is developed, the Beijing-Shanghai expressway, the Tai-Xin expressway two expressways and the Cilai, Dongdu (Dongdu) Ping (Pingyi), Wali (Jinzhong South) three railways through the whole territory.

In 2020, the city's gross domestic product (GDP) reached 52.21 billion yuan, an increase of 3.6% over the previous year at comparable prices. The added value of the primary industry (excluding agriculture, forestry, husbandry, fishery and service industries) was 5.77 billion yuan, up by 2.0% year on year; The added value of the secondary industry was 20.24 billion yuan, up 2.8% year on year; The value added of the tertiary industry was 26.20 billion yuan, up 4.6 percent year on year.

In October 2021, it was selected into the "2021 Top 100 Counties and Cities of China Smart City" list and rated as the third batch of demonstration area for social credit system construction.