Shanxi Dingxiang is known as the "blacksmith of a barrel of sesame seeds". As early as the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the iron products of Dingxiang were exported to Suiyuan, Baotou and other places, so there is a saying that "while the iron is hot, Dingxiang is hot". In recent years, faced with the new situation, the county party committee and government of Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province adhered to Scientific Outlook on Development, implemented the "four strategies", further adjusted the stock, increased the increment, optimized the structure, accelerated the industrial agglomeration, promoted the sustained, healthy and rapid development of the forging industry, and made every effort to build the largest new forging base in China and even the world.
The county party committee and government of Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province have accelerated the pace of economic development, actively innovated development concepts and ideas, taken deepening reform as the driving force and opening wider to the outside world as a new breakthrough. Dingxiang forging industry has developed rapidly, and its equipment level and technical level have been greatly improved. The annual processing capacity of forgings and flanges reaches 500,000 tons. Products are exported to more than 30 countries and regions such as Europe, America and the Middle East, with an annual export flange of1660,000 tons, accounting for the national export.