Northern hilly areas mostly planted arid crops, mainly oat (naked oat), buckwheat (skin oats), potatoes, caraway, canola and so on. The northern grasslands are rich in sheep, goats, cattle, horses, camels and other livestock. The southern plains of fertile soil, yellow (river) irrigation system and groundwater watering facilities, floods and droughts, wheat, millet, sugar beets, sunflowers, corn, sorghum and vegetables, fruits and melons. Buckwheat is a major specialty here, known for large particles, high powder, good powder color, beautiful flavor and famous, is in short supply of export products. Avena is another famous specialty of Baotou, nutritious, and has a high medicinal value.

Central mountains, according to preliminary investigation, wild plants **** there are 88 families, 302 genera, 601 species. Included in the national important protection of rare species are yellow jessamine, Mongolia lentil. Commonly used important medicinal herbs are licorice, astragalus, ephedra, red peony, windbreak, chaihu, platycodon, farfarthing, Zhimu, Codonopsis, wolfberry and more than 200 kinds of, especially astragalus, licorice, ephedra, Codonopsis, wolfberry production is larger, best-selling at home and abroad.

Baotou's catering characteristics are still with a strong northwest flavor, that is, with beef, mutton and a variety of noodle-based. And here are some unique flavor food, their names are strange and interesting! Like pile nest nest, pinch fish fish, roll hoarding hoarding, dumpling dumplings ah, there are fried puppets, baked cookies, pressure hafnium luo, etc., are made with Inner Mongolia yinshan oat fine crafted traditional food. Yinshan oat is also famous for this.

In the intersection of Huan Cheng Road and Nan Men Wai Street, there can taste a variety of local flavors of snacks night market stalls, and the price is very cheap, in the summer night, to come here to have a good taste of the people are endless.