Huangjiabu Town has obvious industrial and economic characteristics, forming three new industries with characteristics: fire fighting equipment, textile printing and dyeing, and surface treatment. In 2002, it was named "Hometown of Fire Equipment in China" by the Ministry of Agriculture. There are industrial functional zones with environmental protection characteristics, complete infrastructure, Ningbo Guangyao Thermal Power Co., Ltd. and sewage treatment plant, forming a good environmental protection treatment system of centralized water supply, centralized sewage treatment and centralized heating. There are 13 textile enterprises above designated size, 10 valve enterprises and 8 surface treatment enterprises in the town, accounting for 80% of the total industrial output value of the town.
Since the mid-1990s, Huangjiabu Town has established three leading agricultural industries: mustard tuber, honey pear and aquaculture. The pattern of modern agricultural industry has initially taken shape. Eight agricultural bases have been built successively, including "ecological turtle breeding, three-dimensional polyculture of aquatic products in paddy fields, pollution-free honey pears, pollution-free vegetables, efficient intensive fish ponds, ten thousand modern pig farms, ecological poultry farms and ecological wild duck domestication farms", and "Mingfeng" turtle, "Beifu", "Cheng Lin" and "A Xiang Pavilion" pickles have emerged.