Meitan County belongs to Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, and is located in the north of Guizhou Province. The county seat is 58 kilometers away from Zunyi City, with a total area of 1865.54 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over 3 streets, 12 towns and 132 villages (communities). According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 1 1 in June 2020, the permanent population of Meitan County was 372,865. ?
The area is long and narrow from north to south, 25.5 kilometers wide from east to west and 96.5 kilometers long from north to south, with an average elevation of 972.7 meters and a forest coverage rate of 60.08%. It belongs to subtropical monsoon humid climate, with an average annual temperature of 65438 04.9℃.
Meitan County is the "No.1 Tea Industry County in Guizhou", and Meitan Cui Ya, Zunyi Red, Guizhou Needle and Meijiang Cuipian are famous all over the country. With fertile land, beautiful mountains and rivers and good ecology, it is known as "a pearl on the Guizhou Plateau" and "a small south of the Yangtze River in Yunnan and Guizhou". The first batch of national rural community construction demonstration units.
On 20 16, Meitan County was listed as the second batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization.
On September 25, 20 18, the people's government of Guizhou Province issued a notice saying that it agreed that 14 counties (districts) such as Meitan County would withdraw from poverty-stricken counties. In 2020, the regional GDP of Meitan County will be1180.7 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 4.7% at constant prices.