Agriculture plays an important role in Zaozhuang economy. It is national commodity grain base, pollution free vegetable planting base, cultured aquatic product base, stock raising base and fresh fruit base, as well as one of demonstration regions of Food and Agriculture Organization of UN Development Zone and Huaihai Economic Zone. The proportion of stock raising in total agriculture production value and average per-capita amount of meat, egg and milk rank the first and the second in Shandong province respectively in the past continuous two years.

The industry in Zaozhuang is complete. Now it has four industries like coal, construction materials, textile and machinery as the support industry. Meanwhile it has a complete industry system including metallurgy, cigarette, paper making, rubber, food, medicine and so on. It is also an important energy, construction material industry base of East China region.

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Its city construction gets a rapid development. With a city vegetation cover rate of near 40%, it is the famous green city in the north and won the honor of “National Hygienic City” for the continuous three times.

Zaozhuang, with coal storage amount of 6 billion tons, has the fame of “coal city of south Lu”. It has many modern mines and annual coal production reaches 20 million tons. Due to advantaged dominance, it has established 12 Kengkou Power plants and has a total installed gross capacity of 1.86 million kilowatt by transforming coal into electricity.