Lushi County (simplified Chinese: 卢氏县; traditional Chinese: 盧氏縣; pinyin: Lúshì Xiàn) is a county under the jurisdiction of Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, the People's Republic of China.

The archaeological site was the Xindi of the Guo State in the Western Zhou dynasty, and in the Spring and Autumn period was the residence of the Yin Rong.

According to the records of occupying this place, after the three families were divided into the Jin dynasty, King Han Xuan set up Sanchuan Commandery, which belonged to the county.

[1][2] In 113 BC, Lushi County was established in the Han dynasty, which belongs to Hongnong Commandery.

In the Western Wei dynasty, Yichuan Commandery was established, and Lushi County belonged to it.

In 1928, Heluo Road was abolished, and Lushi County was directly under Henan Province.

In December 1938, the CCP decided to establish a Communist Party organization in Lushi County.

In the autumn of 1958, a large number of laborers in Lushi County participated in the large-scale iron and steel smelting, which seriously affected agricultural production and caused a famine.

[10][11][12] Lushi County has well-preserved vegetation, with more than 2,400 species of various plants and more than 1,200 kinds of wild Chinese medicinal materials.

It is one of the top ten traditional Chinese medicinal materials base counties in China.

The second-level key protected wild animals include 40 species of golden pheasant and giant salamander.

Spring and autumn are shorter, winter and summer are longer, and the temperature difference between day and night is large.

The forest coverage rate of Lushi County is 69.34%, the southern mountainous area exceeds 90%, and the number of days with good atmospheric environment quality reaches more than 90%.

Edible fungi, Chinese medicinal materials, animal husbandry and under-forest economy are the pillar industries of Lushi's agriculture.

It has 300 million bags of Lushi mushroom bags, 1 million mu of Lushi walnuts, 1 million mu of Lushi Forsythia serrata and more than 1,200 mu of greenhouse vegetables have won the National Edible Mushroom Industrialization Construction Demonstration County, National Export Mushroom Quality and Safety Demonstration Area, National Excellent Mushroom Export Base County, Lu's Forsythia Chinese Characteristic Agricultural Product Advantage Area, Henan Province Chinese Herbal Medicine Industry Development Ten Strong county title.

In 2015, Lushi County received more than 8.54 million tourists and achieved a total tourism revenue of more than 6.17 billion yuan.

[18] Lushi County is located in a contiguous poverty-stricken area in the Qinba Mountains.

[19] In 2016, the poverty incidence rate in the county reached 18.9%, ranking first in Henan Province.

Lushi County began to carry out large-scale poverty alleviation and relocation in 2016, and as of February 2021 In January, 8,727 households with 31,353 people in Lushi County were relocated for poverty alleviation, and 55 resettlement sites were built.

[22] The Lingbao-Lushi section of the Sanxi Expressway and the Luoning-Lushi section of the Zhenglu Expressway were completed and opened to traffic on December 31, 2012, shortening the journey from Lushi County to Sanmenxia and Zhengzhou urban areas by half.