In 2017, Guiyang County was expected to achieve GDP of 38.5 billion yuan, an increase of 8%; the added value of scale industry was expected to complete 21 billion yuan, an increase of 7.8%; in the top 400 counties (cities) of county economy development potential list in China, Guiyang County ranked 201st.

Since 2017, facing the economic downward pressure, Guiyang County has highlighted the strategy of "strong industrial county" and developed the county by industry, paid close attention to industrial development, park construction, investment attraction and other work, actively cultivated new industries, modern agriculture and modern service industries, and created the non-ferrous metals, food and medicine, new energy and new materials, and other pillar industries on the basis of the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. The economic development of the whole county has shown a good trend of stability and vitality.

Guiyang County has always grasped the project construction and meticulously planned a number of leading, basic and highly active industrial projects. In 2017, Xianglong General Aviation aircraft assembly, Teikyo Environmental New Material and other 16 projects were completed and put into production; 8 wind farms were built with a construction scale of 348,000 kilowatts, a cumulative generating capacity of more than 2 billion degrees and a tax payment of more than 40 million yuan. The new materials, new energy and other emerging industries were developing rapidly. The county industrial park focused on the goal of "building hundreds of billions of parks and striving to create national industrial parks", and gradually constructed the development pattern of "one park and two districts" of High-tech Industry Park, Furong Food and Drug Industrial District and Nonferrous Science and Technology Industrial District. In 2017, the total income of technology, industry and trade in the park was estimated to be 66.7 billion yuan, breaking the barrier of 60 billion yuan.

At the same time, the county vigorously launched a four-year plan of action to attract investment and focused on high-tech and high value-added projects. In 2017, the Spain Cota industrial project, the lead acid battery recycling and reuse project of Guangdong XinSheng Eco-Technologies and other 107 projects were signed, especially introduced the whole industrial chain of Guangdong Home Smart Industry Park and Shenzhen Guangdong Die casting Industry Park. 133 enterprises have signed up to enter the park and 15 enterprises have started construction, which has opened a new development process of d "The world home furnishing made in Guiyang".

At the same time, the county took promoting the agricultural supply-side structural reform as an opportunity to continue to improve agricultural efficiency through intensive processing. The Jingxiangyuan Food and Beverage Company, pig processing of Ouli Food, Juncao demonstration promotion base in Fangyuan Town and other projects had prominent effect; the Chinese herbal medicine industry continued to develop, with a planting area of 26,000 mu, successfully ranking among the "Demonstration county of Chinese herbal medicines planting base" in the province; 7 new leading agricultural enterprises above the municipal level and 4 Hunan famous brand products were newly added; 120 new farmers' professional cooperatives and 100 family farms were added; the production area of the leading industry of flue-cured tobacco has been kept above 200,000 mu for several years, with tobacco tax of 183 million yuan in 2017, "Guiyang Gold Tobaco" to the whole country.

In addition, the county has developed the cultural tourism, healthy care, modern logistics and other modern services, successively implemented the Cherry Park, Shennong Bee, Wuyunguan Comprehensive Market and other projects, held the 2nd Cherry Blossoms Festival and Rural Culture and Tourism Festival, and created the national 3A scenic spot, Guiyang Cultural Park.

The prosperous and development of various undertakings have promoted the county economy of Guiyang to achieve new leaps and bounds.