Longdong Township is a big agricultural township, and the agricultural economy plays a leading role in the township economy. Before the end of 1990s, most farmers basically had enough to eat and wear. After 1998, the government guided farmers to adjust their structure, various leading industries rose rapidly, and the agricultural economy developed rapidly. Zou Houming, the leader of science and technology demonstration in Longcao Village, led farmers to learn the technology of planting pink onions. On the basis of gradually expanding the planting scale, the township established the first professional agricultural product production and marketing association-Longcao Village chopped green onion production and marketing association, which used information to implement fixed-point sales. At present, Longcao Village Group 4 is the main production base, and the products are sold to counties, Wanzhou, Fengjie and Yichang, with an annual profit of about 700,000 yuan. The tea garden operated by Guihua Village 12 group field has a production base of 13.3 hectares, with an annual output of 3,500 kilograms of tea and an output value of140,000 yuan. 86% villages in the township produce tung oil, which is exported to Yichang, Fengjie and other places in Hubei, with an annual profit of 4 million yuan. Hu Houming, 4 groups in Longcao Village, raises more than 0/00 Nanjiang yellow sheep, and provides 35 high-quality sheep every year, with a profit of 1.7 million yuan. In 2002, the township's GDP was 45.27 million yuan, of which the total agricultural output value was 33.55 million yuan and the per capita net income of farmers was 1.497 yuan. * * * Produce 8.87 million kilograms of grain, 400,000 kilograms of oil, 6.5438+0.854 million kilograms of meat, 6.5438+0.556 million kilograms of fruit and 2.72 million kilograms of vegetables. The balance of various deposits at the end of the year is13,986,700 yuan, and the balance of various loans at the end of the year is 71526,000 yuan. The people of the township have basically solved the problem of food and clothing, and a few people have reached a well-off level.

In the 1990s, there were 1 hydropower station and two brick and tile factories in the township, with a total output value of 6.8 million yuan and a profit of 740,000 yuan. By 2002, there were 9 industrial enterprises in the township, with a total output value of11340,000 yuan and an annual tax payment of1500,000 yuan; There are 9 private enterprises, of which the original value of fixed assets of Red Liang Shi Shale Brick Factory is 200,000 yuan, with an annual output of bricks 1.0 1.000 and an output value of 1.7 1.07.