Potou has a long history of agriculture, is a typical agricultural township. Now mainly grow wheat, corn, rape, sweet potatoes, sesame, etc.; fruit mainly apples, pears, persimmons, etc.. Potou deep soil, irrigation conditions are now more favorable, well irrigation, rain cellar irrigation and pumping yellow irrigation complement each other, especially in the southern pumping yellow irrigation area, suitable for the production of high-quality food, Potou Township in 2000 was included in the national high-quality wheat production base. Pucheng County has set up Qiaoling 10,000 mu sightseeing facility agricultural park in Potou. After the nineties, Potou has strategically adjusted the structure of agricultural industry, and the proportion of farming and forestry is in line with the economic development. Two bases have been formed in the farming industry, the egg production base in Dongshan Village, and the production base of "two-dollar sows" and "three-dollar" lean pigs in Lujia Village. In forestry, in addition to the greening project in Qiaoling, Potou increased the beauty of the mountains and rivers of Taibai Mountain project and the return of farmland to forest work. At present, more than 3,000 acres of mixed fruit forest belt has been formed in the north along the mountain belt, more than 2,000 acres of pepper economic forest belt.

Potou's enterprises started in the early 1970s, has formed a building materials, construction machinery, artillery, agricultural and sideline product processing four major production systems. 2007 year-end, the township's township enterprise output value of 88.37 million yuan, building materials, construction machinery, agricultural and sideline product processing plant 135, 942 employees, to Hongda, Xuyang as the representative of the artillery company 6, more than 5,500 employees. More than 5500 people. Among the enterprises in Potou, Potou Cement Factory, Changzheng Construction Machinery Factory, Shenli Machinery Factory and Qinxing Cement Factory have gained considerable popularity and market competitiveness. "Shenli" and "Long March" brand winches and a series of stone-breaking machinery are in short supply. Potou Cement Plant's "Qiaoling" cement is also exported to Xinjiang, Yinchuan and other places. Potou firecrackers have been standardized, multi-color, safe, products are exported to more than ten provinces in the northwest and southwest, part of the export of foreign exchange, welcomed by consumers.

Potou territory of the bridge mausoleum is a national key cultural relics protection units, is a key tourism development projects in Shaanxi Province, its artistry by historians as the crown of the Tang mausoleum. It is located in the territory of Po Tou Fengshan (Tang Dynasty called bridge mountain), according to the belly of the mountain excavation chamber, in the ground around the mountain and built into the bridge mausoleum is the opening of the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Xuanzong for his father, Tang Dynasty Ruizong Li Dan to build the mausoleum. Sealed within 20 square kilometers, the facilities are very luxurious, the ground was dedicated to the temple, Que Lou, Mausoleum Department, the lower palace and other architectural complexes, has now disappeared. But there are still a large number of tall earth que, mausoleum wall remains. Ground existing Shidai stone carving group, the scale of the large, the shape of the great, the momentum of the macro, the beauty of the carving, the art of fine, rare at home. 2001, "the bridge mausoleum protection and development and utilization of the plan" was approved by the State Council, the first 24 million people's investment has been used for infrastructure construction, now the bridge mausoleum has been a tree-lined, smooth roads, in accordance with the plan, when the ten-mile imitation of the Tang Dynasty Street, the northern plant landscapes, the bridge mausoleum stone architecture Will be interspersed, the formation of the Loess Plateau in the north of Wei a tourism pearl.