Changtu County is located in the northernmost part of Liaoning Province, at the junction of Liaoning, Jilin and Mongolia provinces, with an area of 4,324 square kilometers and a registered cultivated land area of 3.42 million mu. The county has jurisdiction over 38 township farms (24 towns, 14 townships and 5 agricultural and forestry farms) and 544 administrative villages with a total population of1020,000, including 830,000 agricultural population. Farmers own nearly 5 mu of arable land per capita, with convenient transportation. Changda Railway, National Highway 102, Shenha expressway run through the north and south, and Pingqi Railway and Jixi Highway (National Highway 303) run through the east and west. Natural resources: There are more than 20 kinds of proven mineral resources, among which limestone has a high grade and reserves of more than 70 million tons, and granite and river sand are extremely rich, with reserves of 500 million tons. At present, three mineral water sources have been proved, with a daily inflow of 300 tons, and the contents of metasilicate and strontium all exceed the national quality standards.

Rich in agricultural and sideline products resources, it is a well-known commodity grain base county in China, with a normal annual output of more than/kloc-0.5 million tons, rich in corn, rice, wheat, sorghum and soybeans, and is known as the "granary in northern Liaoning". The output of economic crops such as vegetables, flue-cured tobacco, beets, peanuts, carrots and potatoes is also considerable. The animal husbandry is developed, and it has been listed as a demonstration county for raising cattle with straw in the plain and "the hometown of live bone geese in China" by the state, and Changtu Black Pig and Changtu Live Bone Goose are famous all over the country. The total forest volume is 3.85 million cubic meters, with a coverage rate of 26.9%.

Economic development situation

In 2002, the GDP was 310.40 billion yuan, the total industrial and agricultural output value was 7.92 billion yuan, the local general budget revenue was10.47 billion yuan, the per capita income of farmers was 2,837 yuan, and the per capita disposable income of cities and towns was 3,600 yuan. Since 1998, foreign projects 1730 have been introduced in five years, with a capital of 2.22 billion yuan, which has effectively promoted the development of the county's economic and social undertakings. The thinking of economic development during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period is determined as follows: relying on the advantages of grain and agricultural and sideline products resources, taking advantage of the location advantages close to large and medium-sized urban agglomerations and developed transportation, speeding up the pace of strategic structural adjustment of county economy, vigorously cultivating Changtu local characteristic industrial clusters, striving to provide a series of deep-processed agricultural and sideline products for large and medium-sized cities, and gradually becoming a serialized food base for large and medium-sized industrial cities in the province, and realizing the transformation from resource advantages to economic advantages. Vigorously promote high-efficiency cash crops and strive to enter the ranks of strong counties that raise geese and cattle in China. By the end of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, the county's forest area reached 2.25 million mu, the forest stock reached 5 million cubic meters, and the forest coverage rate reached 36.6%. At the same time, we will achieve a new breakthrough in the deep processing of agricultural and sideline products, pay close attention to the transformation of resource development and processing enterprises, develop the individual and private economy, accelerate the development of small towns, and gradually increase the proportion of non-public ownership to over 50%.