Yongzhou has vigorously adjusted its industrial structure, and its social economy has developed rapidly and healthily, forming a relatively complete local industrial system with food, machinery, textiles, building materials and metallurgy as the backbone. Changfeng Group introduced Japanese technology to produce Mitsubishi Cheetah cars, with an annual output of 30,000 cars and a body of 50,000 cars. It is the largest automobile industry base in Hunan. Lingling Cigarette Factory is one of the top 500 industrial enterprises in China, with an annual output of 500,000 cartons of cigarettes. Xiaoxiang Group is a large enterprise group integrating machinery, metallurgy, building materials and pharmacy, with an annual output of 2 million tons of cement. The main products of industrial enterprises are cheetah car, red bean series, Zhicheng series cigarettes, Wuxi brand cement, Jiuyi brand cement, hydropower equipment, disc motor, silicon-manganese alloy, Houyanqing oral liquid, Xiang Jun flour, men's wine and other textiles and paper products.
Yongzhou agriculture is changing from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture and open agriculture with regional layout, large-scale production, scientific management and intensive management. It has large-scale production bases such as high-quality rice, grapefruit, navel orange, tangerine, flue-cured tobacco, camellia oleifera, rice seed production, lean pig, vegetables and special breeding, Jiangyong Sanxiang (fragrant rice, grapefruit, taro), Yongzhou Yishou, Jianghua Pearl pepper and Xintian.
Yongzhou City has further optimized the investment environment, increased investment attraction, given preferential treatment to merchants who come to invest in enterprises in terms of land acquisition, demolition and infrastructure projects, and set up a "no-charge zone" in the province, prohibiting arbitrary fund-raising, arbitrary charges and arbitrary apportionment from foreign-funded enterprises, persisting in handling affairs according to law, and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. Foreign economic and trade has made great progress, and normal foreign trade relations have been established with more than 20 countries and regions. The Phoenix Garden Economic Development Zone, Changfeng Automobile Supporting Investment Industrial Park, Songjiazhou Hydropower Station and Pingzhou High-tech Industrial Park, which were built by introducing foreign capital, are all in Yongzhou City, and the comprehensive development effect is good.