Huitong County is a county under the jurisdiction of Huaihua City. Huitong County is located in the southwest of Hunan Province, bordering Tianzhu County of Guizhou Province in the west, Xuefeng Mountain in the east and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the west. Located in the turning zone of the south section of the second-class terrain ladder in China, the eastern slope of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau transits to the eastern side of the Jiangnan hills. The total area is 2245 square kilometers. The total population is 360,000 (year 20 1 1). Huitong county governs 8 towns, 17 townships (6 ethnic townships), and the county government is located in forest towns.