Ningxia has beautiful mountains and rivers, rich natural resources, hardworking people and a wide variety of industrial and mining products. Since the reform and opening up, the broad masses of workers in Ningxia's industrial front have worked hard to complete and deeply process many traditional industrial products, doubling their original values.
"Taixi Wujin" is one of the industrial products with a long history and a long reputation in Ningxia. According to local records, Wujin in Taixi was adopted by the people as early as the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and it has a history of more than 300 years. Wujin in Taixi is a high-quality coal produced in Rujigou, northwest of Pingluo County. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, a surnamed Li opened a "Dechang Charcoal Field" in Rujigou, where employees dug and sold coal for profit. Since the founding of New China, Rujigou has been gradually built into a modern coal industrial base. Taixi coal has the characteristics of low ash, low sulfur and low phosphorus, and high calorific value, high specific resistance, high lump coal rate, high chemical activity, high clean coal recovery rate and high mechanical strength. Taixi coal is of high quality after mining, filtering and fine washing. It is not only the same size and shape, but also black and bright, non-stick and smokeless. Taixi coal is a good fuel for metallurgical industry. If Taixi coal is ground to 200 meshes and injected into the blast furnace, each ton of Taixi coal can replace 1 ~ 1.28 tons of coke. Taixi coal is ideal for civil use, and it is the first-class fuel in fireplaces of ancient high-grade residential buildings abroad. Over the years, Ningxia Taixi coal has been exported to foreign countries, which has been well received by users in western countries such as Japan.
Carpet is another ancient national craft in Ningxia. The carpet production in Ningxia began to develop from the Ming Dynasty. Its raw materials are taken from the fine fiber and long hair of Tan sheep unique to Ningxia. The woven carpet has bright colors, soft texture and elasticity. During the Qing Dynasty, Ningxia carpets were sent to Beijing as a tribute. Due to the destruction of the reactionary ruling class, the carpet manufacturing industry in Ningxia was in danger of extinction on the eve of liberation. After the founding of New China, with the continuous development of new technology and the increase of output year by year, the carpet industry in Ningxia has been reborn. There are many kinds of carpets in Ningxia, including antique carpets and artistic carpets. Antique carpets are hand-made, and the raw materials are high-quality virgin wool. The pattern is completely ancient and dyed in a special way. This kind of carpet is antique and elegant in color. Art carpets are exquisite in workmanship, rich in graphics and three-dimensional sense, bright and lively in color, and have high artistic appreciation value. No matter what kind of carpet, there are some common characteristics, such as strong texture and strong warmth retention. Ningxia carpets are famous at home and abroad.
Ceramics is a famous product in Ningxia, with a history of nearly a thousand years. Up to now, the museum of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region still preserves several rare porcelains of Xixia period, such as Yuchun pot, Gao Zuwan and ear jar. Their glaze color is white, the wall is thin, the shape is unique, and they have obvious national characteristics. The large-scale production of modern ceramics in Ningxia was after liberation, and Shizuishan porcelain was the most famous. Its outstanding characteristics are bright glaze color, novel style and various types. The tableware of Shizuishan porcelain is of excellent texture and exquisite shape. Among them, there are exquisite "three castles" to cover bowls, which are deeply loved by the Hui people. There is also a unique "Spring-welcoming Pot", which has a slender shape, beautiful lines and crystal white, and has been well received at the national "Porcelain Exhibition". Some high-quality products in Shizuishan porcelain were presented as advanced gifts to Muslim VIPs and friends from all over the world who came to Ningxia, making special contributions to Ningxia's opening to the outside world.