Ye county governs several towns and villages.

It governs 5 towns, 13 townships and 580 administrative villages.

Ye County, the capital of rock salt in China, is located in the southwest of central Henan Province, at the junction of Huanghuai Plain and Funiu Mountain. It is under the jurisdiction of Pingdingshan City, with 5 towns, 13 townships and 580 administrative villages, with a total area of 1387 square kilometers and a total population of 86.

Yexian was called Kunyang in ancient times, and her civilization can be traced back to the Stone Age. Ye county was the land of Yuzhou in ancient times, and Zhou was the country of British princes. It belonged to Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period and has a history of two or three thousand years. This is the fief of Ye's ancestor, the ancestral home of 23 million Ye's descendants at home and abroad, and the famous battle of Kunyang. Many historical and cultural celebrities, such as Confucius, Huang Tingjian and Li Bai, either served as officials here or traveled here, leaving a well-known immortal story and enduring exquisite poems in Mika. Ye County is one of the "Top Ten Ancient Cities in Henan", a provincial garden county and a provincial health county. There are more than 30 historical sites in the territory, such as Yangshao cultural site, Qin and Han ancient city site and Kunyang ancient battlefield site. There are 2 national cultural relics protection units, 4 provincial cultural relics protection units, more than 50 municipal and county cultural relics protection units, and 2 100 precious cultural relics in the collection.

Yexian has four distinct seasons, pleasant climate, abundant water resources and beautiful scenery. There are both Funiu Mountain water and Tongbai Mountain water in the territory, with beautiful scenery and unique charm. The natural landscapes such as Yanshan Reservoir, Shimen Reservoir and Wangshi Mountain are fascinating. The ancients once praised the beautiful landscape of Yexian county with "the green hills don't draw for a thousand years, and the Lishui River has no strings". There are six rivers in the territory, including Ruhe River, Shahe River, Grey River, zhanhe River, Lihe River and Ganjiang River. There are 2 large reservoirs and 29 small reservoirs, among which Yanshan Reservoir is the key project of the state to control the Huaihe River.

Yexian County is adjacent to Pingdingshan City, with obvious location advantages and convenient transportation. Adjacent to Zhengzhou, Luoyang and Nanyang civil aviation airports. Two expressways, Ri (Zhao) South (Yang) and South (Beijing) Luo (Yang), meet near the county seat. There are 6 entrances and exits of expressways in China, including national highway 3 1 1 and Chongqing 0 1.

Yexian county is rich in resources. There are mainly rock salt, petroleum, coal, iron, phosphorus, bauxite, marble, potassium, graphite and dolomite. Among them, the distribution area of rock salt is 400 square kilometers, with a total reserve of 330 billion tons. It is the largest well salt field in China, with a sodium chloride content of over 95%, ranking first in China. In 2007, Yexian was awarded the title of "Rock Salt Capital of China" by China Mining Association, and it is one of the six famous mining cities in China.

The county economy of Yexian county has a strong development momentum. Five leading private industries, such as leather shoes, three-wheeled motorcycles and Muslim beef and mutton processing, have flourished, becoming the largest production base of leather shoes, three-wheeled motorcycles and Muslim beef and mutton in Henan Province and the largest electromechanical parts and grain deep processing base in Pingdingshan City. The agricultural industrialization of Yexian County has developed steadily, and it is the "national commodity grain production base county", "advanced grain production county in Henan Province", "key county for animal husbandry development in Henan Province" and "the largest pollution-free vegetable production base in Pingdingshan City". In 2003 and 2005, it became the ten counties (cities) with the fastest county economic development and the best benefits in Henan Province, and enjoyed the treatment of expanding power counties.

In recent years, the county party committee and government of Yexian county have clearly put forward the strategic concept of building a salt capital with strength, vitality, charm, culture and harmony, vigorously introducing foreign capital, and focusing on supporting salt-making and salt chemical enterprises. With the entry of many listed companies and large enterprises such as Pingdingshan Coal Group, Shenma Group, Wuhan Katie, Chongqing Longxin, Jinan Qingqi, Zhongyan Long Hao and Guotai Hengsheng, Yexian has become a big city. The completion and use of a number of large-scale projects, such as Zhongyan Long Hao Salt Chemical Co., Ltd., Zhongyan Henan Salt Industry Logistics Distribution Center, Shenma Circular Economy Industrial Park and Pingdingshan Coal Group Coal and Salt Joint Chemical Park, have greatly promoted the development of salt industry in Yexian County, and initially formed a good situation in which coal, electricity, salt, salt chemical industry and modern salt industry circulation systems develop together and promote each other. By 20 10, the production capacity of refined salt in Yexian county is expected to reach 5 million tons, and the production capacity of ion-exchange membrane caustic soda, PVP resin and soda ash will reach 3 million tons respectively. Yexian will also build a city sculpture with salt as its core, develop salt handicrafts, build a salt product shopping center, a salt culture museum, a salt culture exhibition center and a salt culture theme park in Yexian, design an open salt industry tourism route, and truly turn Yexian's salt making and salt chemical industry into a national industrial brand with great influence in the international market, and build Yexian into an ecological, environmental-friendly, efficient, civilized and harmonious ".