2. Huili County is located in the southwest of Sichuan Province, at the southern end of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in the heart of Panxi Resource Development Zone, with Panzhihua in the west and Kunming and Chuxiong in Yunnan Province in the south, which is the crossroads of Sichuan and Yunnan. Since ancient times, Huili County has been an important place for business exchanges between southwest Sichuan, western Yunnan and South Asia, and it is a fortress that the ancient Silk Road must pass through, and is known as the "lock key of Sichuan and Yunnan".