Jiayuguan City is an emerging industrial city with a large city and a small rural area, which is a peri-urban type of agriculture and an important base for the city's non-staple food. The agricultural population of Jiayuguan City is 32,800 people.In 2002, the net income per capita of farmers in Jiayuguan City was 3,514 yuan. There are 2,840 hectares of arable land in the countryside, all of which is irrigated, with excellent conditions for agricultural production such as villages, fields, roads, drains, electricity and communications, and the realization of water conservancy of farmland, mechanization of operations, planting of good seeds and scientific cultivation, making it an advanced agricultural area in Gansu Province. The per capita living area in rural areas is 26 square meters, and 77.3% of farmers live in spacious and bright well-off houses.

In 2011, the total grain output of 7415.44 tons, an increase of 4.78%. Among them, the summer grain output 2731.87 tons, an increase of 2.37%. Grain crops planted area of 12,900 acres, a decrease of 0.01 million acres compared with the previous year; wheat planted area of 0.6 million acres, a decrease of 0.03 million acres compared with the previous year; oilseed planted area of 0.41 million acres, a decrease of 0.12 million acres; yams planted area of 0.12 million acres, an increase of 0.01 million acres; vegetable planted area of 25.1 million acres, an increase of 0.19 million acres. At the end of the year, the stock of large livestock was 0.58 million heads (horses), an increase of 1.95% over the end of the previous year; the stock of cattle and sheep was 0.53 million heads and 48,000 sheep, an increase of 8.16% and 25.65% over the end of the previous year. Cattle and sheep out of the pen were 0.08 million heads and 25,400, respectively, an increase of 14.29% and 27.0% over the previous year. Pig inventory was 21,600 heads, down 12.9% from the previous year, pigs out of 28,000 heads, an increase of 7.69% over the previous year. The total annual meat production of 2537.43 tons, an increase of 10.75% over the previous year, of which beef and mutton increased by 14.29% and 27.0% respectively. Sheep wool production of 68.85 tons, an increase of 15.71%. Annual aquatic products production of 158 tons, an increase of 37.39% over the previous year. Jiayuguan City has formed a metallurgical industry as the main body of the chemical industry, electric power, building materials, machinery, textiles, food as a complementary industrial system.

The machinery industry mainly consists of various types of steel processing, such as steel bars, steel wires, ribbed steel, standard fasteners, steel doors and windows and other enterprises. In addition, there are manufacturers of cotton spinning, clothing, knitted gloves, leather shoes, food, grain and oil processing, beverages and so on.

In 2011, the completed industrial added value of 18.7 billion yuan, an increase of 19.0% over the previous year. Above-scale industrial enterprises completed industrial added value of 18.53 billion yuan, an increase of 19% over the previous year. Among them, the city's industrial enterprises realized industrial added value of 2.476 billion yuan, an increase of 16.3%. Product sales rate of industrial enterprises above designated size 99.1%, down 0.5 percentage points from the previous year. Annual industrial enterprises realized profits of 2.836 billion yuan, an increase of 39.3%. Six high energy-consuming industries to complete the industrial added value of 18.08 billion yuan, an increase of 19.3%; realize profits of 2.684 billion yuan, an increase of 50.36%. Due to its favorable geographical location, the three secondary wholesale stations set up by the state in Jiayuguan in the 1970s supplied goods to the entire Hexi region, and later radiated to the northern mining areas of Qinghai, the Hami region of Xinjiang and the Ejinagi Banner of Inner Mongolia. Through the unswerving implementation of the distribution of famous stores, chain supermarkets, and the scale and characteristics of the professional wholesale distribution strategy, has basically constructed a wholesale market as the main body, large shopping malls as the backbone of a wide range of points of the market, the marketplace, even the sale of supermarkets, famous stores for the network of the market system. The total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 705 million yuan. In terms of industries, the retail sales of wholesale and retail trade industry amounted to 452 million yuan, an increase of 23.7%; the catering industry amounted to 115 million yuan, an increase of 16.3%; other industries amounted to 138 million yuan, a decrease of 19.7%. Jiayuguan market trade turnover of 460 million yuan, down 6.4% from the previous year.

In 2011, fixed asset investment of 6.524 billion yuan was completed, an increase of 31.59% over the previous year. The total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to RMB 3.001 billion, an increase of 25% over the previous year. The total value of foreign trade import and export for the year was 943.27 million dollars, an increase of 23.0% over the previous year. At the end of the year, the balance of deposits in local and foreign currencies of financial institutions in Jiayuguan City amounted to 21.832 billion yuan, an increase of 27.69% over the end of the previous year.

In 2011, the revenue from tourism and related industries amounted to RMB 1.214 billion, an increase of 59.36%. The number of tourists in the whole society was 2,203,700, an increase of 32.18%. Major tourism enterprises and scenic spots to achieve business income of 228 million yuan, an increase of 37.91%; major tourism enterprises and scenic spots *** received 1,953,400 tourists, an increase of 41.59%, of which, 19,625 overseas tourists, an increase of 23.46%. The average number of days tourists stayed was 1.49 days, an increase of 0.19 days over the previous year; room occupancy rate of 52%, down 3 percentage points.