Yingkou is one of the Chinese cities which developed industry earlier than the others. Through years of development, the city has a good array of modern industrial businesses, most of which are non-governmental.

Yingkou has become an important light industrial and textile production base. Its products include chemical fiber, cotton textiles, knitwear, printing and dyeing, garments and silks. Its Great Hall of the People Brand of cigarettes beat others and won the first prize in a national tobacco contest. Yingkou Kelong is world’s second largest refrigerator business.

Yingkou is famous for its medium plate. It is growing into China’s most important specialist steel production base.

Yingkou’s petrochemical industrial works command great potential for further development. Xiangyang Kehua’s polypropylene catalyst has a 80 percent national market share; Sanzheng Chemical Works’ tri-cyanogen chloride has cornered 25 percent of the global market.

New-type building materials industry grows with Pan Pan safety door becoming a brand name product enjoying 28 percent of the national market.

Yingkou’s equipment manufacturing sector is powerful. Efforts are being made to build Liaoning Shipbuilding-Related Industrial Park, with a view to developing large-scale ship repair and related businesses.