Industry, however, plays a dominant part in the local economy. A relatively complete industrial system has taken shape. Leading industrial products are hardware machinery, power tools, vacuum cups, security doors, scooters, chemicals, and building materials. Yongkang is one of China's most powerful hardware export suppliers. It is also China's biggest power tools production base. It is the country's biggest producer of scooters and vacuum cups.
In recent years, the local government has followed the principles of enhancing the farming efficiency and increasing farmers' income. The government has promoted the industrialized farming operations as tools and socialized farming services as assurances to promote boost farming industries and build specialty farming. Fangyang Brand Fangyan Green Tea has won the honor of Zhejiang Province's first-grade famed tea consecutively twice. Gaoge Brand Goose liver has been well known as the king of food on international markets. Hengkang brand dehydrated vegetables won the golden prize at second China Agriculture Exposition. What is more, also popular on the domestic market are Hulaolao brand soya bean film, Fangyang brand orange, Wangzhiyan ginger, Fangshan persimmon, Gongduan waxberry, Taixian grape, Shizhu sweet taro, Yongxiang pickled bamboo shoots, Baziqiang preseason Peach and Yiyu orange, and green ball brand cooked food.
Yongkang has gorgeous mountains and valleys. Eighteen Butterflies and Nine Lions Formation, folk arts famed both at home and abroad, originated in Yongkang. Known for precipitous peaks, grotesque rocks, strange waterfalls and beautiful landscapes, Fangyan is known as the number one mountain resort in the central Zhejiang.
永康市地處浙江中部， 是壹個“七山壹水二分田”的丘陵半丘陵地區，永康屬亞熱帶季風氣候，四季分明，溫暖濕潤，日光充足，雨量充沛，農業資源豐富，生產條件得天獨厚。
工業是永康的主導產業，現已形成較為完整的工業體系。主導產品有五金機械、電動工具、保溫杯、防盜門、滑板車、化工、建材等。永康是中國最大的五金出口供貨基地。永康是中國最大的電動工具生產基地。永康是中國最大的滑板車生產基地。永康是中國最大的保溫杯生產基地。
近年來，永康市委、市政府緊緊圍繞農業增效、農民增收的總目標， 以科技為動力，以農業產業化經營為載體，以農業社會化服務為保障，大力培育特色支柱產業， 特色產業漸趨集聚。方巖牌方巖綠毫茶葉連續兩屆獲省壹類名茶稱號；高歌牌鵝肥肝在國際市場被譽為“食品之王”，聞名遐邇；風味獨特的永康菜幹曾獲第二屆中國農業博 覽會金獎。此外，還有胡佬佬牌豆腐皮、方巖牌紅桔、五指巖生姜、方山柿子、拱瑞楊梅、唐先葡萄。 石柱舜芋、永祥筍錢、八字墻早桃及伊予柑、綠球牌熟食等系列產品暢銷市場。
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