Ningyuan county is a county under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, located in the center of six counties in the south of Hunan Province, bordering Xintian County, Lanshan County and Jiahe County in the east, Jianghua Yao Autonomous County in the south, Daoxian County in the west and Qiyang County in the north. Ningyuan county has a total area of 25 10 square kilometers. The county has jurisdiction over 3 sub-district offices, 12 towns, 4 ethnic townships and 4 state-owned forest farms. There are famous scenic spots such as Jiuyishan National Forest Park, Ningyuan Confucian Temple and Shundi Mausoleum in ningyuan county. Ningyuan county is a national grain-producing county, a pig-transferring county, a demonstration county of high-quality camellia forest base, a pilot county for promoting modern tobacco agriculture, a key county for small-scale farmers' water construction, a pilot county for ecological civilization demonstration projects, a compensation county for ecological functional areas, an advanced county for establishing the rule of law, a demonstration county for popular science work, a key county for competitive sports reserve talents, and an old revolutionary county. It is also a pilot county to undertake industrial transfer, an advanced county to develop an open economy, a strong tourist county, a civilized county and a health county in Hunan Province.