Taiping Lake Town is rich in agricultural and sideline products such as rice, tea, wood, bamboo, fish, watermelon, and specialty fruits, seedlings, Ganoderma lucidum, fungus, mushrooms, medicinal materials and other products.

In particular, the green tea on the lakeshore is famous far and wide. It is the origin of Taiping Houkui, one of China's top ten famous teas, and the main producing area of ??Huangshan Maofeng. After winning the gold medal at the 1915 World Expo, its Taiping Houkui was selected as one of the most famous teas by President Hu Jintao in 2007.

The national gift tea was presented to former Russian President Vladimir Putin.