Covering 1,719 sq km, Zhangqiu district governs 15 subdistricts, three towns, and 890 villages. By the end of 2018, Zhangqiu had a population of 1.05 million.

Zhangqiu achieved a regional GDP of 107.27 billion yuan ($15.46 billion) in 2018, seeing year-on-year growth of 11.1 percent based on comparable prices. The added value of the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors were 7.65 billion yuan, 61.57 billion yuan and 38.06 billion yuan, year-on-year rises of 5.6 percent, 10.9 percent and 13 percent. The ratio of the three sectors was 7.1:57.4:35.5.

In 2019, the district’s GDP grew by 3 percent and revenue in general public budgets reached 6.42 billion yuan, up 7.4 percent year-on-year.