Qidong County
'the east of Qiyang') is a county and the 8th most populous county-level division in the Province of Hunan, China; it is under the administration of Hengyang prefecture-level city.Qidong County covers 1,872 km2 (723 sq mi), as of 2015, it had a registered population of 1,067,000.It lies in the southwest of Hengyang and the northern bank of the middle reaches of the Xiang River.It is long and narrow from east to west, with higher altitudes in the north and low in the south.[4] According to preliminary accounting of the statistical authority, the gross domestic product of Qidong County in 2017 was 29,636 million yuan (4,389 million US dollars), up by 8.9 percent over the previous year.