Since the reform and opening up, the whole town has actively carried forward the Xixia spirit of "self-pressure, unity and forge ahead, desperate development and daring to fight for the first place", and based on the actual situation of the town, decided to establish a 24-word economic development strategy of "hometown of fruit trees, strengthening agriculture and animal husbandry, revitalizing the town through science and education, and opening up and enriching the people", and proposed to build Dinghe into a "mushroom town, a strong industrial town and a mountainous area" by the end of this century. The whole town pays close attention to the four key points of characteristic agriculture, township enterprises, financial resources construction and market town and infrastructure construction, which makes Dinghe economy develop by leaps and bounds, with a total social output value of 493 million yuan in198. The total industrial and agricultural output value of the town reached 234 million yuan; Gross output value of township enterprises 1. 1 100 million yuan; The fiscal revenue is 3.2 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers is 208 1 yuan. Since 1996, Dinghe Town has won the first prize of the county's comprehensive goal research for three consecutive years, and won the honorary titles of "Advanced Township in Family Planning", "Demonstration Township in Comprehensive Management" and "Strong Township by Township Enterprises". Was named "Top 100 Villages of National Afforestation and Greening"; Provincial and municipal honorary titles such as "Top Ten Villages for Afforestation and Greening", "National Advanced Village for Science and Technology Work" and "Science and Technology Demonstration Village". The pace of agricultural industrialization is accelerating, and the characteristics of leading industries are obvious. Based on the characteristics of large population and small hillside area, the town party committee and government insisted on market orientation, actively promoted agricultural industrialization, closely focused on the four pillar industries of mushroom, fruit, animal husbandry and mining, implemented localized layout and large-scale production, and successively built eight commodity fruit bases led by mushrooms. 19 agricultural leading enterprises mainly engaged in the processing of agricultural and sideline products; Five service systems with transportation, science and technology, materials, information, financing and improved varieties as the main contents; The six major specialized markets, mainly mushroom trading and fruit wholesale, have initially formed a "dragon-shaped" development pattern of Dinghe economy with regional layout, specialized production, enterprise management, socialized service and integrated management. During the period of 1998, mushrooms and gastrodia elata were the main products, and the annual output of commercial hemp was over 50,000 kg. There are 50,000 strains of Tilia amurensis and 5 million bags of Lentinus edodes, with an annual output of more than 35,000 kilograms of dried Lentinus edodes. More than 66% farmers in the town participate in the production and management of these two kinds of mushrooms. In particular, the production of bagged mushrooms, due to the large-scale construction of the base and the excellent quality of mushroom products, welcomed the presence of experts and representatives attending the third national professional conference on mushrooms, leaving the reputation of "the first town of mushrooms in the Central Plains" and "Guanhua Gorge in Dinghe, Gu Xiang". The town's fruit industry base has a total area of 40,000 mu, with an annual output of 5 million Jin of fruit and a fruit income of 8 million yuan, with a per capita 300 yuan; 86% of the agricultural products in the town operate orchards, and there are 120 fruit farmers whose fruit income exceeds 10,000 yuan, which has become a famous "fruit town" in western Henan and a "demonstration town of rejuvenating forests through science and technology in Henan Province". Township enterprises have developed rapidly and their management quality has been continuously improved. The town party committee government adheres to the principle of "individual starts, group grows, shares break through, and the scale is expanded by mobility", and pays attention to development on the one hand and reorganization on the other, forming a new pattern around resource development, pillar processing, combination of long and short, rolling development, and collective, individual and private shares blossom everywhere. In recent years, Konka entertainment equipment has been newly installed on the basis of consolidating and transforming key enterprises such as papermaking, cartons and electric wires. At present, there are four-level industries 1346 in the town, with an output value of 240 million yuan and profits and taxes180,000 yuan. The supporting facilities of market towns are improving day by day, and the commercial trade is unprecedentedly prosperous. In recent years, it has invested more than 40 million yuan, built and expanded 8 streets, planned and built 6 specialized markets, broadened the framework of market towns and enhanced the function of radiation driving. At present, the township area has reached 1.55 square kilometers, with two east-west streets and six north-south streets interlaced; The street hardening rate is 75%, and the tap water penetration rate is 80%; 2000 program-controlled telephones have achieved direct communication at home and abroad, with the telephone penetration rate in market towns reaching 95%, the mobile phone coverage rate in GSM wireless receiving stations reaching over 90%, and the installed cable TV users reaching 1 10,000 households; There are first-class hospitals, municipal civilized nursing homes, theaters and cultural activity centers named by the Ministry of Health in the town. The cultural living standards of citizens have gradually improved. Six specialized markets, including mushrooms, fruits and livestock, have been built, mainly dealing in forest by-products, such as wood, traditional Chinese medicine villages, fungi, dried and fresh fruits, etc., with the peak number of listed people reaching 6.5438+0.65 million, and the annual retail sales of social goods reaching 330 million yuan. In particular, the mushroom trading market, which covers an area of 20,000 square meters and has been cultivated since 195, has attracted merchants from more than 10 provinces and cities to operate here. In 197, the transaction volume exceeded 200 million yuan, making it an important distribution center for the purchase and sale of local products in southwest Henan.