Shanxi Dingxiang has a "bucket of sesame blacksmith" legend, as early as in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong years, Dingxiang's iron products are exported to Suifang, Baotou, etc., so there is a "iron Dingxiang, iron Dingxiang," the saying. Recently, Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province, the county government in the face of the new situation, adhere to the scientific concept of development, the implementation of the "four major strategies" to further adjust the stock, enhance the increment, optimize the structure, accelerate industrial agglomeration, and promote the forging industry, sustained, healthy and rapid development, and make every effort to build the country and even the world's largest new forging base.

Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province, the county government continues to accelerate the pace of economic development, and actively innovate the concept of development and ideas to deepen the reform as the driving force to expand the opening up to the outside world as a new breakthrough, the rapid development of the forging industry in Dingxiang, the forging industry's level of equipment, the level of technology has been significantly improved, forging and flange processing capacity of 500,000 tons per annum, the products are exported to Europe and the United States, the Middle East and other 30 countries and regions, the annual export of 166,000 tons of flanges, the annual exports of flanges. The annual export of flanges is 166,000 tons, accounting for more than 70% of the total national exports, becoming the largest flange production base in the country and Asia.