 Economy Agricultural production Rice Wheat Citrus fruits Sugar cane Sweet potatoes Peaches Grapes Metals Iron and steel Titanium Vanadium Cobalt Lithium Natural gas reserves Coal Energy Building materials Wood processing Food and silk processing. Silkworm cocoons Chengdu and Mianyang are the production centers for textiles and electronics products. Deyang, Panzhihua, and Yibin are the production centers for machinery, metals, technology (such as software) machinery and metallurgy (including automobiles) hydropower pharmaceutical food and beverage auto manufacturing located in Chengdu, Mianyang, Nanchong, and Luzhou. Sichuan aerospace and defense (military) industries. Rockets (Long March rockets) and satellites were launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, located in the city of Xichang. The Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam ever constructed, was built on the Yangtze River in nearby Hubei province to control flooding in the Sichuan Basin, neighboring Yunnan province, and downstream. Chengdu The capital of Sichuan, Chengdu. |