Pingliang is the main agricultural and forestry product production base and the main production area of ??animal husbandry and cash crops in Gansu Province. It is rich in apples, wheat, corn, cereals, buckwheat, rape, flax, forest fruits, flue-cured tobacco, etc., and has the ability to develop " The broad prospects of agriculture with "two highs and one high quality" made Qingyang area famous as the "Granary of Longdong". The city and seven counties (districts) have won the "Advanced Grain Production Areas (Counties)" honorary awards from the Ministry of Agriculture and the State Council. Dry-fed mountainous areas are rich in flax, sunflowers, potatoes, oats, beans, etc. The damp mountainous areas are lush with forest and grass. They are important producing areas of various types of Chinese medicinal materials in the northwest. The main Chinese medicinal materials include Codonopsis pilosula, astragalus, licorice, rhubarb, Fritillaria, wintersweet. There are more than 150 kinds of flowers. Yams, lilies, bracken, soft-shell turtles, etc. are very local characteristics, and fur and meat are famous far and wide; Sichuan area is mainly about fruits and vegetables, which has developed rapidly and has become one of the pillar industries in rural areas.

Pingliang is an important animal husbandry base and fur distribution center in northwest China. Its annual beef cattle breeding volume ranks first in Gansu's agricultural areas. It has built a number of leading processing enterprises such as Jingxing 100,000-head beef cattle fine processing plant, Xikai Animal Husbandry 50,000-head slaughtering line, Baixing Group Welfare Tannery, Kaifeng Export Beef Canning Processing Plant, and Xukang Beef Food Production Plant. , with a processing capacity of 1 million pieces of cowhide and 100,000 tons of grass products. The country's first live cattle certification trademark - "Pingliang Red Bull" - was successfully registered. Beef, leather, cooked meat products, bone products, etc. are sold in the national market, and live cattle and beef are exported to foreign regions.

The total grain output in 2015 was 1.1321 million tons, a decrease of 1.15%. Among them, the summer grain output was 386,300 tons, a decrease of 4.02%; the wheat output was 384,500 tons, a decrease of 4.02%; the autumn grain output was 745,800 tons, an increase of 0.42%; the corn output was 502,600 tons, an increase of 1.78%. The annual grain output was 925,800 tons, a decrease of 0.01%. Among the main cash crops, the output of oil crops was 67,900 tons, an increase of 0.59%; the output of garden fruits was 1.1964 million tons, an increase of 8.16%; the output of vegetables was 1.452 million tons, an increase of 7.85%; the output of Chinese medicinal materials was 47,000 tons, an increase of 14.63%. The afforestation area completed throughout the year was 238,900 acres, and the seedling area was 39,800 acres; 212,700 acres of terraced fields were added, and the effective irrigation area was 20,400 acres. In 2015, the annual fixed asset investment was 60.295 billion yuan, an increase of 12.17%. 1,485 various construction projects of more than 5 million yuan were implemented, with an investment of 53.636 billion yuan, an increase of 7.45%; 457 investment projects of more than 50 million yuan, with an investment of 33.789 billion yuan, a decrease of 9.75%; 32 investment projects of more than 100 million yuan, an investment of 49.75% were completed billion, a decrease of 7.138; there were 6 investment projects of more than 1 billion yuan, with an investment of 1.176 billion yuan, a decrease of 76.01.

In 2015, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 17.75 billion yuan, an increase of 9. In terms of sales location, the retail sales of urban consumer goods was 12.2 billion yuan, an increase of 6.7%; the retail sales of rural consumer goods was 5.55 billion yuan, an increase of 14.3%. In terms of commodity forms, the catering industry achieved revenue of 2.44 billion yuan, an increase of 9.7%; the commodity retail industry achieved revenue of 15.3 billion yuan, an increase of 8.89%. In terms of sales and business, the wholesale industry achieved sales of 7.844 billion yuan, a decrease of 1.16%; the retail industry achieved sales of 19.889 billion yuan, an increase of 1.715%; the accommodation industry achieved a turnover of 729 million yuan, an increase of 8.43%; the catering industry achieved a turnover of 3.541 billion yuan. , an increase of 19.51.