The Party Committee and government of Niuquan Town have always regarded increasing farmers' income as the key to promoting rural economic development. The fruit industry, planting industry and breeding industry, mainly including Dahongpao Zanthoxylum bungeanum, chicken leg onion and black-eared angora rabbit, are booming, and are known as "the hometown of Zanthoxylum bungeanum in China" and "the largest rabbit hair distribution center in East China". The total output and purchase and sale of Zanthoxylum bungeanum account for 1/5 and 1/3 of the whole country respectively. The black-eared angora rabbit bred by genetic engineering has applied for patent and won the second prize of provincial scientific and technological progress. Niuquan Town is rich in mineral resources and has a superior geographical position. There are more than ten kinds of proven underground mineral deposits, such as iron ore, coal, limestone, clay, gypsum, sulfur, quartz stone and Yanzishi Fossil fossils, among which limestone and clay are unique, and lime firing and pottery processing are well known. The industrial base of this town is relatively strong. In 2002, the total industrial output value of the town was 355 million yuan, and the tax revenue was 37 million yuan. There are 8 township enterprises in China, including Jinniu Mining Company, Luzhong Cement Co., Ltd. and Luzhong Transformer Co., Ltd. ... Lessing Iron Mine is jointly developed by Provincial Geological Exploration Institute, Xinwen Mining Group and this town, with a total investment of 654.38+28 billion yuan and an ore reserve of 47 million tons (with iron content above 55%). Now it has invested 90 million yuan and all kinds of equipment are complete. Production is expected to start in March 2004. The annual output is 500,000 tons of ore and 300,000 tons of iron concentrate, with an annual profit and tax of 24 million yuan. There are also 26 village-run enterprises and 45 individual and private enterprises in the town. Niuquan Town is rich in tourism resources, and China Yuntaishan Eco-tourism Zone has invested 8 million yuan. 200 1 The former site of the first Laiwu County Committee-the monk cave in Yuntai Mountain was rebuilt, and the statue of Liu Zhongying, secretary of the Shandong Provincial Working Committee and the first secretary of Laiwu County Committee, was built, which, together with the inscription "Red Flag handed down from generation to generation" by Yang Dezhi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, became the main position of revolutionary traditional education. Yuntai Mountain has built a municipal forest park, and now it is examining and approving provincial forest parks. There are many natural and cultural attractions here and around, such as Pigeon Cave, Jixin Cave, Yuan Jun Palace in Bi Xia, Roman Square in the Dynasty, One Step Three Eyes Well and the former residence of Qi Laojing. On the beautiful Bijia Mountain, the forest of steles of Wang Xizhi in China, invested and built by the town government, China Calligraphers Association and all walks of life, will be the largest forest of steles in China at present. After investigation and demonstration, it is under construction.
In 2002, the town's GDP reached 980 million yuan, the town's fiscal revenue reached 32.6 million yuan, the per capita income of urban residents was 4,752 yuan, and the per capita income of farmers was 3,583 yuan. The output ratio of primary, secondary and tertiary industries is1:1.08:1.19, and more than a dozen tasks such as party building, spiritual civilization, family planning and social security have been rated as advanced units by provinces and cities respectively.