Yidu City, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Yichang City, is located in the southwest of Hubei Province, facing Chanting District and Zhijiang City of Yichang City across the Yangtze River in the east, adjacent to Songzi City in the southeast, bordering Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County and Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in the southwest and due west, and bordering Yichang City Military Command in the north, covering an area of 1357 square kilometers. The climate of Yidu city is subtropical monsoon climate, with cold winter and hot summer, four distinct seasons, and the average annual temperature is 16.7℃. As of October 2022, Yidu has jurisdiction over 1 subdistrict, 8 towns, 1 township, and 1 mining area. Yidu City people's government resident Lucheng street. In 2021, the permanent population of Yicheng City was 357,500.

Yidu city, known as "Chu Shu throat" "Three Gorges gate city" "western Hubei gateway" said. More than 7,000 years ago, human beings have thrived on this land. Spring and Autumn period, the county is Chu. In the eleventh year of Emperor Gaozu of the Western Han Dynasty (196 BC), a county system was established, named Yidao. Yidu County was set up in the 15th year of Jian 'an of the Eastern Han Dynasty (210 years), which means "suitable for building a capital". On June 11, 1998, it was renamed Yidu City. Yidu City has convenient transportation and has formed a transportation network composed of highway, railway, air and water transportation. Yidu City is one of the national top 100 counties and cities, National garden City, National Forest City, National Advanced County and City of culture, National Advanced County and city of science and technology progress, Town of Chinese folk stories, National Top 100 counties and cities of investment potential, National top 100 counties and cities of green development, National top 100 counties and cities of science and technology innovation, National Top 100 counties and cities of new urbanization quality, National top 100 counties and cities of industry National innovative counties and cities.

In 2021, Yidu City achieved a regional GDP of 800.06 billion yuan and a total fiscal revenue of 2.951 billion yuan. The annual per capita disposable income of urban permanent residents was 44,514 yuan and that of rural permanent residents was 26,046 yuan.