The main economic pillar is agriculture. Agriculture and agricultural and sideline industries are well developed.
My personal opinion: Cangxi is still a very suitable city for human habitation.
According to the statistics of 2007, the total volume of the economy increased, the growth rate was stable and the quality of operation improved. According to statistics, the annual gross domestic product (GDP) of 2.73 billion yuan (current price), an increase of 12.3% over the previous year (at comparable prices, the same below). Among them: primary industry added value of 1.30 billion yuan, an increase of 8.8%; secondary industry added value of 480 million yuan, an increase of 22.8%; tertiary industry added value of 950 million yuan, an increase of 11.7%. The contribution rate of the three industries to the economic growth was 33.0%, 32.1% and 34.9% respectively, driving the economic growth by 4.1, 3.9 and 4.3 percentage points (see Table 1). Per capita GDP was 4,282 yuan (equivalent to US$529), an increase of 831 yuan over the previous year. The proportion of the added value of the three industries to the GDP was 47.6:17.6:34.8.
The private economy is developing well. The value added of the private economy for the year was 1.133 billion yuan, an increase of 15.6%, and the contribution rate of the private economy to GDP growth was 50.8%.
Entrepreneurs' confidence in the macro-economy is increasing. The average level of entrepreneurial confidence index for the year reached 108 points, and the average level of enterprise prosperity index reached 112 points.
The total level of consumer prices (CPI) rose 1.2% over the same period last year, and the overall market prices throughout the year showed that the rate of increase in the first half of the year fell month by month, and the second half of the year ran smoothly. The main trend of the eight categories of prices, food prices rose 2.0% year-on-year, tobacco, alcohol and daily necessities and clothing prices fell 0.1% year-on-year, household equipment and maintenance services prices rose 0.4% year-on-year, health care and personal goods prices rose 0.3% year-on-year, transportation and communication prices fell 1.3% year-on-year, entertainment, education and cultural goods and services prices fell 1.0% year-on-year The price of housing rose by 4.7% year-on-year.
The main problems in economic development are: small economic output, structural contradictions are more prominent, poor industrial interaction; industrialization, urbanization level is low; the difficulty of local financial revenue, some urban and rural residents living in difficult conditions, employment and social security tasks are heavy.