Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County is under the jurisdiction of Chongqing. Located in the southeast of Chongqing, in the middle of Wuling Mountains, outside the southeast edge of Sichuan Basin, it is an important gateway to the southeast of Sichuan and Chongqing. It is adjacent to Longshan County, Baojing County and Huayuan County in Hunan Province in the east, Songtao Miao Autonomous County in Guizhou Province in the southwest, and Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County in the north.

Xiushan County, with a total area of 2462 square kilometers, is mainly composed of Tujia and Miao nationalities, as well as Yao, Dong, Bai, Buyi and other minorities, with a total of 30 nationalities.

Zhang Kai, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, wrote in "To Xiushan", "The Shu Road is sometimes exhausted, and the spring breeze is sometimes punished. The rain in Guizhou is blowing, and the clouds in the sky of Chu are involved", which vividly depicts the unique endowment of Chongqing Xiushan Autonomous County, "one foot in three provinces, three provinces in one city".

Xiushan County is a national agricultural and rural informatization demonstration base, a national greening model county, a national garden county, a national health county, a national best ecological protection city, a national cultural advanced county, a national sports advanced county, a township of Chinese calligraphy, a Chinese couplet culture county, a township of Chinese folk culture and art, a red revolutionary base, a national demonstration county of national unity and progress, a national cultural and ecological protection experimental area County-level nominated cities of national civilized cities, pilot counties of national media integration reform, comprehensive demonstration counties of national e-commerce into rural areas, national rural e-commerce industry development demonstration base, and national agricultural and rural informatization demonstration base counties. It has won the honorary titles of "China's Top 100 Small and Medium-sized Cities with the Most Investment Potential", "China's Top 100 Small and Medium-sized Cities with the Most Regional Driving Force" and so on. It has national 4A scenic spots such as Hong'an Ancient Town, Chuanhegai, West Street and Phoenix Mountain. 2019 Top 100 counties and cities in western China.

According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Xiushan County is 496194. By October 2021, Xiushan County has jurisdiction over 5 streets, 18 towns and 4 townships. The county people's government is located at No. 19, Yuxiu Avenue, Zhonghe Street.

In 2020, the county's GDP reached 30126.82 million yuan, an increase of 3.9% over the previous year.