Gulin County, founded in 1909, originally belonged to Yongning County, Suzhou District, Sichuan Province. 1949 Gulin county was liberated and placed under the administrative office of southern Sichuan. 1960 merged with Luzhou District to form Yibin District, and the administrative divisions were changed many times. 1985, Gu Lin was placed under the provincial jurisdiction of Luzhou city. Gulin County is located in the southern edge of Sichuan Province, and Chishui River flows into the Yangtze River from south to east and north along the border. The county extends into northern Guizhou in a peninsula shape, bordering xuyong county in the west and Bijie, Jinsha, Renhuai, Xishui and Chishui in Guizhou on three sides. The county covers an area of 3 182 square kilometers, governs 26 towns and villages with a total population of 840,000, and is inhabited by Han, Miao, Yi, Hui and other 12 ethnic groups. It is one of the counties with a large population of scattered ethnic minorities in Sichuan Province. Among them, the minority population is 27,000.