Because of its location in the mountains and inconvenient transportation, Chendian Township is known as a poor township in the history of Xinxian County. 1986, the net income per capita of the township was 84 yuan, and the financial income was 47,000 yuan. Since the reform and opening up, Chendian Township economic and social development. 2004 GDP of the township completed 76.563 million yuan, agricultural output value completed 40.89 million yuan. The financial income of the township completed 629,000 yuan, and the net income per capita of farmers reached 2,363 yuan. 2005, the total amount of grain and oil in the township reached 9,725 tons and 656 tons respectively. The field is mainly planted rice, with an annual output of 4.6 million kilograms of rice, and the dryland intercropping is mainly peanuts, with an annual output of 400,000 kilograms of dried fruits. The township has nine small reservoirs, with an annual output of 450,000 kilograms of fresh fish. Tea plantation area of 5500 acres, 15 tea processing plants, annual output of 450,000 kilograms of dry tea, output value of 50 million yuan. Chestnut planting area of more than 5,000 acres, with an annual output of more than 200,000 kilograms of chestnuts. 2008, the township's GDP completed 185 million yuan, an increase of 21.7%, the completion of 107 million yuan of social fixed investment, an increase of 109.7%, the financial budget revenue of 780,000 yuan, an increase of 27.2%; per capita net income of farmers amounted to 4,218 yuan, an increase of 14.2%. More than 5,000 people were sent to domestic and foreign laborers, generating income of more than 80 million yuan.
In recent years, the development of chestnut, black plum, ginkgo-based efficient forest and fruit industry. At present has completed the return of 20,500 acres of forest area, built Dongfengling, Leichanggou, grinding cloud mountain, cotton mountain, Daigang ginkgo base, guest ridge ridge and other six township office chestnut, ginkgo base, sister slope, autumn wind ridge two American black plum base.
The township township enterprises are small in scale and low in output value, the key township-run enterprises are Jinqiao Power Station, Water Supply Company, Dongfengling Economic Forestry Base and so on. Employees amounted to 56 people.