By the end of March, 2024 19, according to the query of Huaihua government in official website, Huaihua has a certain economic status in Hunan Province, but compared with first-tier and second-tier cities, there is still a gap in the economic aggregate and growth rate of Huaihua. Moreover, the scale of Huaihua city is relatively small, and its population has not reached the level of first-and second-tier cities. Although Huaihua has made some achievements in infrastructure construction, it still needs to be further improved compared with first-and second-tier cities.

Huaihua, with a forest coverage rate of 70.87%, is one of the nine ecologically sound areas in China, and is known as a "breathing city". Huaihua is also the birthplace of hybrid rice. Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, successfully bred the first generation of indica hybrid rice in Huaihua.