Kaiyuan is a national key grain-producing area and commodity grain base with good natural conditions. The main crops are rice, corn and sorghum. Oil crops are famous for soybeans, and cash crops are mainly tobacco. Kaiyuan is rich in hawthorn, and its main specialties are garlic and Chinese cabbage. The forest area of the city is 6.5438+0.36 million mu. Wild plant resources are abundant, including ginseng, bracken, hazelnut, auricularia auricula, mushrooms and artificially cultivated Chinese herbal medicines. Production bases of agricultural and sideline products such as edible fungi, ginseng, flax, asparagus and vegetables have developed rapidly. The "three supports and one development" of pigs, fish and cattle has become a local feature.
There are more than 20 kinds of underground mineral resources in Kaiyuan, including gold, nickel, aluminum, copper, zinc, coal, marble, limestone and building stone. The reserve of marble in the base is 965.438 billion cubic meters. "Black and white flower" diorite is a rare decorative stone. Placer gold is one of the main minerals in this city, with great reserves. This city has a good industrial base and certain development potential. Industrial enterprises 15, mainly including mining, machinery, agricultural machinery, chemical fertilizer, cement, textile, brewing, oil extraction, printing, food, paper-making bone glue and so on. Among the main industrial products, 2 1 products such as gelatin, canned food, flax, clothing and arts and crafts have entered the international market and sold well in seven countries and regions such as the United States, Germany, Japan and Hong Kong.
Kaiyuan has convenient transportation. The trunk line of Changda Railway starts from Kansai, the Kaifeng branch line leads eastward to Xifeng, and there are 29 special railway lines. The highways are mainly Beijing-Harbin, Liao Kai and Shenping lines, with county and township highways.
The old city of kaiyuan city is an ancient cultural city with a long history. Before the Qing Dynasty, it was always a border town with a government. There are more than 20 ancient pagodas, mosques, Zhongyuan Temple, Wang Yao Temple, Guandi Temple, Bell and Drum Tower and Golden Line River. In addition, there is the Chongshou Temple Tower in the southwest of the old city, which was built in Liao and Jin Dynasties. The tower is 47 meters high, with a conical octagon and 13 layers of dense eaves. It echoes the 0/3-meter-high bell and drum tower in the city center, forming a beautiful landscape of "overlooking the bell tower and shining ancient towers".