Ye County, subordinate to Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, is located in the southwest of Henan Province, southeast of Pingdingshan City, between 113 ° 02 ′ - 113 ° 37 ′ E and 33 ° 21 ′ - 33 ° 46 ′ N. With a total area of 1387 square kilometers, Yexian County has a warm temperate and subtropical climate. [3] The county has jurisdiction over 3 streets, 15 towns and 553 administrative villages.

According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Ye County is 702345.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Yeyang was changed into Yexian County, belonging to Nanyang County. In September 1983, with the approval of the State Council, Ye County was transferred from Xuchang District to the leadership of Pingdingshan City. Xunan Expressway, Luopingluo Expressway, G311 National Highway, S330 Provincial Highway and Pingwu Railway run through the county. Ye County was named by the National Mining Federation as the "Rock Salt Capital of China". On May 9, 2019, after the provincial special evaluation and inspection, it reached the poverty eradication standard and officially withdrew from the poverty county sequence. [8] In November 2019, Ye County was listed as the second batch of counties meeting the standard of water-saving society construction.

In the first quarter of 2021, the GDP of Ye County will be 4.917 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 16.7% at comparable prices, 25 percentage points higher than the same period last year (- 8.3%) and 9.4 percentage points higher than the first quarter of 2019 (7.3%). Among them, the added value of the primary industry was 1.021 billion yuan, up 11.9%; The added value of the secondary industry was 1.306 billion yuan, up 25.8%; The added value of the tertiary industry was 2.59 billion yuan, up 15.4%. The tertiary industry accounted for 52.7% of the GDP, 5.1 percentage points higher than the same period (47.6%).