Makou pottery is a famous characteristic craft of Hubei. The products from Makou Kiln are folk ceramics and are in the ranks of top three ceramics in Hubei, together with the ceramics in Macheng’s Caijiashan and Qichun’s Guanjia Kiln. It has a history of more than one thousand years.
Xiaogan rice wine is a traditional local snack of Hubei and has a history of one thousand years. It is made from glutinous rice produced in Xiaogan through fermentation with the unique Fengwo yeast.
In the recent years, the municipal party committee and municipal government made a clear of the strategy of giving equal stress on resource development and resource conservation in the course of developing agriculture focusing on four townships and six industries.