Gu Xiang Town used to be a high-yield agricultural town. The cultivated land in the plain area is mostly tons of grain fields, mainly producing rice, sweet potatoes and peanuts. There are various famous fruits such as olives, oranges, pineapples, lychees and longan planted on the hillside. Agricultural production has changed to industrialization, and special aquaculture, rare poultry breeding and sightseeing agriculture have been actively developed, taking the road of large-scale and comprehensive development. The agricultural structure was further optimized and the production level was further improved. Huahai Group was rated as the key leading enterprise of national agricultural industrialization.
Bathroom industry has become a strong characteristic industry in the ancient town, and its product market covers all parts of the country and parts of the world, becoming the main pillar of the ancient town economy. According to statistics, by 2003, there were 330 sanitary ware manufacturing enterprises in Gu Xiang town, accounting for 60% of the total industrial enterprises in the town, with an annual sales income of 2.75 billion yuan, accounting for 75% of the annual business income of the enterprises in the town, with 22,000 employees. Among them, there are more than professional technicians 1 100, accounting for 5% of employees. All kinds of kilns for sanitary ware in the town are about15000m3, with a daily output of 45000 sets 130 pieces. Gu Xiang Town has become one of the largest sanitary ware production bases in China, and its products are sold all over the country, and some of them are exported to the Middle East and Southeast Asia. * * * Twenty products have won awards or promotion certificates at or above the provincial level, 83 enterprises have passed IS09000 international series quality management system certification, there are more than 350 registered trademarks of sanitary ware, 95 patented products, and more than 60 specialized molds and raw material factories support sanitary ware production. There are more than 330 sanitary ware enterprises in 14 village committees in the town, forming a huge production scale, with an annual output of over160,000 sets and 48 million pieces. With the development of the bathroom industry, a number of large-scale and well-known enterprises have gradually formed, such as Keci Ceramics, Jinshan, Europe, America, Europe, Connor, Meilong, Viani, Peixing, COCO and other enterprises, with an annual output of more than 500,000 pieces, and their products enjoy a certain reputation in the building materials market at home and abroad. By the end of 2003, the output value of sanitary ware industry in Gu Xiang Town was 65.438+72 billion yuan, accounting for 75% of the total industrial output value of the town, with 22,000 employees, accounting for 65% of the total labor force of the town.
With the rapid development of sanitary ware enterprises and the gradual strengthening of brand awareness, Gu Xiang Town will further integrate resources, jointly build the brand of "Gu Xiang Weijie", further promote the development of Chaozhou brand ceramics, and make Gu Xiang a window and distribution center to connect the domestic sanitary ware market with the international market as soon as possible with the help of a complete industrial chain, geographical advantages and overseas Chinese advantages, which is conducive to the development of national sanitary ware industry and the development of domestic and foreign sanitary ware markets.