The gourmet specialties of Kaijiang include: Renshi salted duck, Dazhou crisp plum, Kaijiang bean shoots, phoenix cactus, green sweet bean shoots, Gantang rice dumplings and other specialties.

Kaijiang is Kaijiang County.

Kaijiang County is affiliated to Dazhou City, Sichuan Province.

In the second year of the Western Wei Dynasty (553) in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xinning County was established.

In August of the third year of the Republic of China (1914), it was renamed Kaijiang County.