Yuexi county is building a national ecological demonstration zone. Beautiful mountains and rivers, forest coverage rate of 73%, rich in biological resources, experts called it "a natural garden with good ecological preservation." 1998 was listed as the construction county of national ecological demonstration zone, including Miaodaoshan National Forest Park, Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve and Kujingyuan Provincial Nature Reserve.
Yuexi is a national base county of Chinese herbal medicine. There are 24 species of plants 1024, 79 species of animals and 33 species of minerals in the county, with a total reserve of 75,000 tons. Among them, more than 30 kinds of precious medicinal materials, such as Poria cocos, Gastrodia elata, Eucommia ulmoides, Moschus and Dendrobium, have long enjoyed a good reputation at home and abroad.
Yuexi is a county with national hydropower and rural electrification construction. There is abundant rainfall in the county, and the river gap is large. The theoretical reserve of hydropower is 240,900 kilowatts, and 90,000 kilowatts have been developed, ranking first in the county-level small hydropower construction in Anhui Province. At present, there are still a number of excellent hydropower resources to be developed urgently, with an additional installed capacity of 60,000 kilowatts.
Yuexi is a famous agricultural and sideline products producing county in Anhui Province. Yuexi agriculture is very distinctive, and organic agriculture has developed rapidly. It is the main producing county and base county of alpine tea, chestnut, kiwifruit and out-of-season pollution-free vegetables in Anhui Province. The commodity rate of special agricultural products reaches 95%, among which Cuilan Yuexi, Osmunda japonica, Lentinus edodes, auricularia auricula and alpine vegetables are well-known in domestic and international markets.
Yuexi is a national granite plate export base county. Granite reserves reach 2.4 billion cubic meters, with four series of black and white, red and green, and more than 30 varieties. These products are in short supply in the market.
Yuexi is a key county for tourism development in southwest Anhui. Yuexi has splendid culture, numerous historical sites and beautiful scenery. It is a comprehensive tourism resource county integrating "mountains, water, rocks, springs, temples, forests, waterfalls, valleys, stone carvings, cottages and revolutionary memorial sites". There are more than 20 famous tourist attractions, including 180 scenic spots, including Sikong, the first mountain of Zen in China, Fayun Temple Tower, the first drift in central Anhui, Tianxian River, Yunfeng Canyon and Shiguan Summer Resort. The development prospect of investment tourism is very broad.
Yuexi is a land full of hope. After entering the new century, Yuexi made great efforts to promote the transformation of social economy from endogenous development to open development, seized the three opportunities of industrial transfer, technology transfer and capital transfer at home and abroad, and made great efforts to implement the four development strategies of opening up the county, strengthening the county by industry, establishing the county by ecology and promoting the county by science and education, which promoted the leap-forward development of county economy. With the construction of Dongxiang (Shandong Dongying to Hong Kong) Expressway and Yuexi section of Hefei to Wuhan Expressway, Yuexi's resource advantage will be further transformed into economic advantage, and various construction undertakings in mountainous areas will quickly reach a new level.