The problem in Zhaotong's development in the past ten years is traffic. Zhaotong has complex terrain and inconvenient transportation. Zhaotong is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province, located in the northeast of Yunnan Province, in the hinterland of Wumeng Mountain at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, along the lower reaches of Jinsha River, in the transition zone from Sichuan Basin to Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, adjacent to Bijie City in Guizhou Province in the east and Qujing City in Yunnan Province in the south.