忻州地区位于晋西北黄土高原,是一个经济落后、工业薄弱的老区.解放后,特别是党的十一届三中全会以后,经济面貌发生了重大变化.到1990年底,粮食总产量比解放前翻了3番,工业总产值增长了近400倍.初步形成了以农业为基础,以能源、建筑工业为主导,配合轻纺工业的经济体系. The Zhangzhou region is located in the Loess Plateau in northwestern Shanxi and is an old economically backward and industrially weak district. After the liberation, especially after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Party Congress, the economy has undergone major changes. By the end of 1990, the total grain output was higher than before the liberation. After a three-fold increase, the total industrial output value has increased by nearly 400 times. It has initially formed an economy based on agriculture, led by the energy and construction industries, and cooperated with the textile industry.