Dacao Town is known as the hometown of fruit trees and animal husbandry.

Dacao Town is known as "the hometown of fruit trees" and "the big town of animal husbandry". Fruit trees and animal husbandry are the two leading industries in this town. Since 1980s, fruit production has been the traditional dominant industry in this town. Up to now, the planting scale, fruit grade and scientific and technological content rank among the top in the city. The area of fruit trees in the town has grown to 6.5438+0.8 million mu, involving 10 series and hundreds of varieties. It has established business contacts with Shandong Agricultural University, Tai 'an Agricultural College and other scientific research institutes, and introduced and popularized dozens of famous new varieties such as Red General Apple, Golden Sun Apricot and Golden Pear, which greatly enriched the fruit market and became an important famous fruit promotion base and fruit production base in northwest Shandong. Livestock production, the town has developed more than 500 large-scale breeding households, with extra-large households 100, breeding communities 15 and 20 professional breeding villages. With Xitan comprehensive farm as the leader, an integrated management pattern of production, processing and marketing has been formed. The total income of animal husbandry in the town reached 60 million yuan. In addition, improved seed breeding, cotton production, pepper production and pollution-free vegetables are also the traditional advantageous industries in this town.

Under the guidance of attracting investment, the town's private economy has developed rapidly. The town attracted investment of 70 million yuan, and 20 projects were introduced, including PE composite pipe project introduced by Hua Hong Chemical, attracting investment of150,000 yuan. The number of private enterprises in the town has grown to 150, including more than 5 million yuan invested enterprises 10 and 600 individual industrial and commercial households. With Hua Hong Chemical Co., Ltd. as the leader, more than 20 chemical production enterprises have been radiated, Hua Hong Chemical Group has begun to take shape, and Hua Hong brand has entered the international market, forming businesses such as chemical industry, machinery, hardware, wood processing, carpet processing and labor export.