Jingmen is located in the middle of Hubei, overlooking Wuhan in the east, the Three Gorges in the west, Xiaoxiang in the south, and Sichuan and Shaanxi in the north.

As early as the Neolithic Age, there were human settlements in the three major water systems of Hanjiang, Changhu and Zhanghe.

In the 21st year of Zhenyuan of Tang Dynasty (805), Jingmen County was established and belonged to Jiangling Prefecture.

In the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1376), it was reduced to Jingmen County and belonged to Jingzhou Prefecture.

Jingmen is very close to many great tourist attractions such as Changban Slope of Three Kingdoms fame, the Wudang Mountains, and the Ming Tomb in Zhongxiang (a World Heritage site only an hour away).

As it is located in central China, Jingmen is within easy reach of almost anywhere in the country, taking about 18 hours to either Beijing or Guangzhou by train, or two hours by train to Yichang, home of the Gezhouba Dam project and Three Gorges Dam.

Jingchu University of Technology is a public undergraduate institute approved by China's Ministry of Education.

It is located in Jingmen, Hubei, a famous historical and cultural city known as the "Gate of Jingchu".

An annual event in late March, Jingmen Rape Petal Tourism Festival, exhibits local agricultural production.

The Jingmen Branch of Sinopec is a main producer of oil products in central China, refining crude oil extracted from Nanyang Oilfield in Henan province and the Jianghan Oilfield in Hubei province.

Li Ning has set up its largest distribution center in Jingmen, to link southeastern production and consumption from all over China.

Other important industries include power generation, production of agricultural chemicals and cement, metal and electronic waste recycling, and beer-making.

On July 30, 2014 the mayor of Jingmen, Xiao Juhua, signed a Sister City agreement with the rural Canadian township of North Glengarry in Eastern Ontario.