Pingliang, a prefecture-level city in Gansu Province. Located in the east of Gansu Province, at the eastern foot of Liupanshan Mountain and the upper reaches of Jinghe River, it is the geometric center of the intersection of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, across Longshan (Guanshan Mountain), adjacent to Xianyang in Shaanxi in the east, Dingxi and Baiyin in Gansu in the west, Baoji and Tianshui in Shaanxi in the south, and Guyuan in Ningxia and Qingyang in Gansu in the north. It is an important node city of Guanzhong Plain urban agglomeration.

In the 12th year of Jian Yuan of the former Qin Dynasty (AD 376), Fu Jian, the former emperor of Qin Dynasty, took Gaoping (now Pingliang), the gateway of Chang 'an, as the rear area and did his best. He claimed that Tianxi was a "vassal, I am not pure" and sent 65,438+300,000 troops to attack Liang Qian. World War I wiped out more than 38,000 people in Hexi and Chian (near the Yellow River in Linxia). In August, the enemy arrived in Guzang (now Wuwei, Gansu), and Tian Xizhang was forced to surrender and died at this time. Building a county in the name of Pingliang means "the country of Pingliang", and the name of Pingliang goes down in history.

Pingliang is an important animal husbandry base and fur distribution center in northwest China, and the main production base of agricultural and forestry products and animal husbandry in Gansu Province.