Gan Xibei Tonggu County is located in the periphery, Xiu River, between East Drive, 114 ° 05 'to 114 ° 44', latitude 28 ° 22 'to 28 ° 50' between. City as a result of a huge color such as copper, the shape of drums, hit the sound, named the Tonggu. Yi County to the east, south Wanzai County, West referred Liuyang in Hunan counties (cities), Pingjiang County, north Xiushui County. East West wide terrain and narrow, slightly triangular. With a total area of 1548 square kilometers, of which mountain accounted for 87% of the basin accounts for 13% of the hills, there are peaks over 1,000 meters above sea level 20, is a typical mountain. 140,000 county population, Rural 3 jurisdiction 6 in the town 4 state-owned tree farms, is a typical Hill sparsely populated districts and counties.

 County forest cover as much as 87.4 percent, ranking first in Jiangxi Province. There are Taxus Jiangxi Forest Park, an area of 4762 hectares, the park has more than 20 Taxus 10,000, as the "Taxus town"; Tianzhu Feng-level forest park has a total area of 10,000 Hectares, the park has a rare and protected species State 22, known as "biological southern world"; Crown Hill National Nature Reserve in Woxian 9.2 million, accounting for 53.5 percent of the total area, the forest coverage rate as high as 93.8% It is the middle reaches of the Yangtze River area of Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake and Jianghan Plain between the three major "ecological island." Tonggu average annual temperature of 16.2 degrees, the ideal of "summer resort"; up air quality standards at the national level, the concentration of negative oxygen ions up to 70,000 / cm3, as the "Tianranyangba."

 In September 1927, Comrade Mao Zedong's personal leadership in the bronze drum and launched a world-famous Autumn Harvest Uprising, the Autumn Harvest Uprising bronze drum is the former seat of the Commission and the command center. The revolutionary war, Tonggu 28,000 people have died heroically for the revolution, in which more than 18,000 copies of the martyrs, in Jiangxi Province, accounting for 7% of the list of martyrs. Comrade Mao Zedong in the Autumn Harvest Uprising led to the Tonggu on the way, only to be anti-vigilante patrol investigation team arrested by virtue of his wit, Qiao Shi ideas in the success of the enemy out of the hunt, leaving a "foot in the two provinces, 4 yuan Ding Qiankun" The Legend of experience Tonggu became great generation "Fengxionghuaji, Ching Cheung of the victims" of the land. At present, the county is in the process of Comrade Mao Zedong as leader of risk land, to create "China Red blessed."

 70% of the population throughout the county for the Hakka, Gan Xibei is inhabited by Hakka Center. Bronze drum has a long history of Hakka culture, folk customs are unique. Unique delicious Hakka food, the flavor of Hakka houses, the army Chongwen unique folk customs of the Hakka; sweet sounds of Hakka folk songs was "Chinese folk songs integration" as the most representative song of God and become one of Hakka culture Wonderful flowers.

In recent years, the Tonggu stick to the "eco-Li County, Fuxian industrial, scientific and educational County, tourism Xingxian, open living County," the path of development, further opening-up, integration of a variety of resources and vigorously develop the eco-economic characteristics of bronze drum, To achieve a good and fast development of county economy.