Ningyuan has beautiful natural scenery. Jiuyi Mountain is a national forest park, one of the six scenic spots and one of the top ten tourist areas in Hunan Province, which attracts a large number of politicians, historians and writers to visit Jiuyi Mountain to find relatives and visit the ancient times. Scholars such as Qu Yuan, Sima Qian, Li Bai, Du Fu, Zhu and Xu Xiake all visited Jiuyi Mountain and left many poems praising Jiuyi Mountain and Shun Di. ?
By the end of 20021,the permanent population of ningyuan county was 659,500. In 2022, ningyuan county achieved a regional GDP of 26.72 billion yuan, an increase of 4.9%, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 7.4%, the investment in fixed assets increased by 13.9%, the total retail sales of social consumer goods increased by 2 1%, and the local revenue of general public budget increased by 8. 1%.