Chengde specialties are: xinglong persimmon, xinglong mushroom, xinglong chestnut, xinglong hawthorn, pingquan goat soup, pingquan mushroom, pingquan slippery mushrooms, eight grooves of meat, chengde almonds, longhua rice, all the mountains of water tofu, luanping maize, weifang carrots, huangqi millet, silk hanging brocade, weifang potatoes, fenning oat, chengde light apples, the palace imperial food cake.

Chengde Baijiu have Shanshuang Laojiu, Bancheng Shaojiu, Huangcheng Tiande wine, Sehanba, Jiulong Drunk, eight treasures of the Imperial Wine and so on.

Chengde is the first batch of national historical and cultural cities, 1703 Qing Kangxi built summer residence, became the second political center of the Qing dynasty, 1723 set up the Hot River Hall, 1733 Yongzheng to take the meaning of "bear the ancestor's virtue and zeal", give the word "Huang Cheng Tiande! "Interpretation of the first emperor adhering to the benevolence of heaven and earth to nurture all things; and set up Chengde Direct State, began to be called" Chengde "; Republic of China and the early liberation of the former capital of Jehol Province; in 1955, the Jehol provincial establishment was withdrawn, Chengde was assigned to the Hebei Province, for the province of the city.