Lixian's industry started late. In the early days of liberation, there was only an individual handicraft industry with "five artisans and four workshops", with a very weak foundation and fewer product types. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party in 1978, the industrial enterprises in Lixian County have been reorganized, implemented the collective contract responsibility system, expanded their autonomy, and made considerable progress in industrial enterprises and township enterprises. Industrial categories have also developed from a single type at the beginning of liberation to cover building materials, chemicals, repair, printing, metallurgy, fruit processing and other industries. Gold production ranks in the forefront of the province, and fuses and explosives produced by chemical plants are exported to both inside and outside the province.
Lixian county has a vast land area, and it has always been a big agricultural county mainly focusing on planting. Grain crops mainly include wheat, corn, soybean, potato, etc., cash crops include flax, rape, sunflower, hemp, tobacco, etc., and economic forests such as apples, walnuts, pears and peppers. Yongxing Apple, Bapan Pear, Leiba Zanthoxylum bungeanum and Quanshui Rhubarb are famous specialties in Lixian County, among which Bapan Pear is listed as one of the "Gansu Eight Pears", and Quanshui Rhubarb has been certified by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine as "China Quanhuang", and its export volume accounts for 56% of the whole country.
The county has a forest area of 1.25 million mu, with a forest coverage rate of 21.9%, mainly in the south and northwest of the county. There are more than 2, mu of grassland in Shangping Township, where the pasture of Lixian County is located, and there is also a racecourse on the grassland, which breeds excellent horse breeds.
the transportation in Lixian county is mainly by road, with lines S28 and S36 running through the county, which has formed a road transportation pattern connecting Tianshui in the east, Wushan and Lanzhou in the north and Wudu and Dangchang in the south.
Lixian county is rich in tourism resources, including ancient cultural sites and natural scenery. Lixian County is located in the birthplace of Qin people, and ancient cultural sites are all over the county, including Qin Gong Cemetery (a national key cultural relic protection unit) in Dabaozishan, the hometown of Wang Renyu, a poet of the Five Dynasties, the monument of Zhao Shiyan's family temple, Gaositou and Shishouping Yangshao cultural site of Zhao Mengfu, a provincial cultural relic, Qishan Fort, the place where Zhuge Liang "came out of Qishan six times", and Wuhou Temple in Qishan, one of the five major national temples, and the site of the ancient battlefield of the Three Kingdoms. In addition, there are a large number of natural and cultural landscapes such as Cuifeng Temple, songkhla Mountain Garden, Daxiangshan, Honghe Lake, Taoping Primitive Forest and Shangping Okawabe Grassland.