Xitan Town is a big agricultural township in the county, mainly planting rice, sweet potatoes and peanuts, and combining with the production of fruits, tea and vegetables, it has built 20,000 mu of longan and litchi production base, planting peaches, plums, plums1.000 mu, with an annual total output of more than 8,000 tons. Vegetables are mainly planted with mushrooms and mustard in winter, and the "secondary fermentation technology" has been mastered in mushroom production; Mustard has formed a production chain of planting, processing and sales.
Xihu Township has a population of 43,000 in 2007. Except for 6,000 people, Meiying Village is dominated by Han people, who speak Mandarin, Minnan dialect and some Hakka dialects.