Pingliang straddles Longshan (Guanshan) and is located in eastern Gansu, at the intersection of the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. It is located at 34°54' to 35°43' north latitude and 105°43' to 107°45 east longitude. '. It belongs to the Loess Plateau gully area and the Loess hilly gully area, with mountains, rivers and plateaus. It governs Kongtong District and six counties: Jingchuan, Lingtai, Chongxin, Huating, Zhuanglang and Jingning. The total land area is 11,100 square kilometers, with an altitude between 1,100 and 2,000 meters, with a minimum of 890 meters and a maximum of 2,857 meters. The average annual temperature is 8.5°C, the rainfall is 500-700 mm, the total sunshine hours are 2,239 hours, and the frost-free period is 175 days. Fifteen rivers in the Jing and Wei waters flow through this area with a total flow of 1.5 billion cubic meters and a groundwater storage capacity of 2.5 billion cubic meters. The total population is 2.2 million. There are 18 ethnic groups including Han, Hui, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan.

The city has vast land, fertile soil, abundant natural resources and abundant labor resources. It is rich in wheat, corn, cereals, buckwheat, rape, flax, melons, vegetables and fruits, and is more than self-sufficient in food. The city has abundant forage resources. The city has 3.9 million acres of grassland, including 2.8 million acres of natural grassland and 1.1 million acres of artificial grassland. In particular, after long-term breeding, cultivation and domestication of alfalfa, a unique dominant strain of Longdong alfalfa has been formed, with excellent quality. , high yield, crude protein content as high as 17%-21%. Cattle raising is a traditional industry of farmers in Pingliang. They have accumulated ancestral experience of using alfalfa, wheat straw and corn straw as rough forage, using corn, wheat bran and oil residue as concentrated feed, and raising cattle in houses. In terms of cattle breeds, due to the border with Shaanxi, traditional livestock transactions between Gansu and Shaanxi are frequent. Niushun City in Qinchuan was introduced and mixed with local cattle, forming hybrid cattle of different generations and Qin cattle adapted to local environmental conditions. Sichuan cattle, two groups have formed a unique base group of Pingliang red cattle after long-term mixed breeding and careful selection by local people. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the party and the government have continuously supported county and community-run breeding stations since 1958. They have introduced a large number of Qinchuan cattle to carry out progressive cross-breeding improvement of local cattle and achieved good results. Since the reform and opening up, starting in 1979, the province has promoted the improved technology of artificial insemination of frozen semen of cattle. While our city originally used Qinchuan bulls for improvement, it also introduced foreign beef Limousin cattle, German cattle, The frozen sperm of Danish red cattle, shorthorn cattle and Qinchuan cattle were used to economically cross local cattle, which accelerated the pace of improvement, further improved the quality of the breed, and promoted the transformation from draft cattle to both draft meat and meat draft. The cattle breeding base continues to grow, and the breed structure is gradually optimized. By the end of 2001, the number of cattle raised in the city reached 502,500, and 142,300 commercial cattle were sold, ranking first in the province's agricultural areas. Among them, Qinchuan and Qin hybrid cattle account for 80%, and other red cross-bred beef cattle account for more than 15%.