A rural area in Tonglu county. [Photo/tonglu.gov.cn]

Covering an area of 1,825 square kilometers, Tonglu county administers four sub-districts, six towns and four villages and had a registered household population of 448,800 as of 2019. It is also home to a large She ethnic minority population.

Tonglu had a regional GDP of 37.63 billion yuan ($5.78 billion) in 2020, a year-on-year increase of 2.1 percent.