Pingyuan's specialties mainly include Meishe yellow hairpin, Laoer beef jerky, spore powder, Lingzhi tablets, pot tea, camellia oil, ginger-soaked garlic, radish tea, Jinxi yellow tea and other specialties. There are delicious foods such as yellow hairpin, chicken with scallion oil, pork with sugar sauce and so on.

Pingyuan County is a county under the jurisdiction of Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. It is located in the northeast of Guangdong Province, at the junction of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces. It is adjacent to Jiaoling County in Guangdong Province in the east, Meixian District in Meizhou City in Guangdong Province in the south, Xunwu County in Jiangxi Province in the northwest, xingning city in Guangdong Province in the west and Wuping County in Fujian Province in the north.