Zhengning County, subordinate to Qingyang City, Gansu Province, is located in the southeast of Qingyang City, Gansu Province, at the west foot of Ziwuling Mountain. It is bounded by Ziwuling Mountain in the east by Huangling County, Shaanxi Province, Xunyi County, Shaanxi Province in the south, Binxian County, Shaanxi Province in the southwest, Changwu County, Shaanxi Province in the west by Jinghe River, and Ningxian County, Gansu Province in the north. The geographical coordinates are 35 ° 14 ′ 40 ″ - 35 ° 36 ′ 18 ″ north latitude, 107 ° 56 ′ 20 ″ - 108 ° 38 ′ 08 ″ east longitude. As of 2019, Zhengning County has jurisdiction over 8 towns and 2 townships, with 240000 people, a total area of 1319 square kilometers, and 430000 mu of arable land. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, there are 173243 permanent residents in Zhengning County.

In 2020, the GDP of Zhengning County will reach 2.465 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 2.00% at comparable prices, 4.90, 3.30 and 1.80 percentage points higher than that of the first quarter, the first half and the first three quarters respectively. From the perspective of industry, the added value of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries was 559 million yuan, 191 million yuan and 1.714 billion yuan respectively, with an increase of 4.50%, 3.20% and 0.80% respectively. The growth rate was 4.40, 17.70 and 0.70 percentage points higher than that of the first half of the year, and the GDP growth was 1.14, 0.26 and 0.56 percentage points respectively; The industrial structure ratio is 22.7:7.8:69.5. From the perspective of industry, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, construction, transportation, warehousing and postal services, finance and real estate industries grew rapidly, with an increase of 4.71%, 9.90%, 9.10%, 7.52% and 3.49% respectively, driving a total GDP growth of 2.38 percentage points.

In October 2018, the Gansu Provincial Government issued a notice officially approving Zhengning County to withdraw from the poverty county sequence. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization areas and counties.