Zhenyuan County, subordinate to Qingyang City, Gansu Province, is located in the east of Gansu Province and the southwest of Qingyang City. It is a national-level poverty-stricken county, an important part of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia revolutionary base, and one of the key counties for poverty alleviation and development in Liupanshan. It borders Qingcheng County and Xifeng District in the east, Pengyang County, Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the west, Jingchuan County and Kongtong District, Pingliang City in the south, and Huan County, Qingyang City in the north. It is 91.2 kilometers long from north to south and 78.3 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of 3506 square kilometers. As of June 2020, Zhenyuan County has 13 towns and 6 townships under its jurisdiction. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Zhenyuan County is 361206.

The geology of Zhenyuan County belongs to the Ordos platform area to the east of the Guanshan-Liupanshan fold belt and the gully area of the Loess Plateau, with the terrain higher in the northwest and lower in the southeast. It has a continental monsoon climate in the north temperate zone. It is divided into districts and counties for the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics. On November 21, 2020, the People's Government of Gansu Province approved Zhenyuan County to withdraw from the poverty line.

In 2020, the total GDP of Zhenyuan County reached 7.901 billion yuan, up 2.2% year on year. From the perspective of industries, the primary industry has achieved a total of 2.541 billion yuan, an increase of 8.3% year on year and a growth of 4.8 percentage points in GDP; The secondary industry completed 1.871 billion yuan in total, up 1.1% year on year, with a drop of GDP of 3.3 percentage points; The tertiary industry completed 3.489 billion yuan in total, down 0.5% year on year, driving the GDP growth by 0.7 percentage points. 1、 The added value of the second and third industries accounted for 32.15:23.68:44.17 of GDP respectively.