谷城是湖北38个山区县之一。从县域经济发展前景看，农业虽占较大比重，但人均耕地不足0.8亩，发展空间小；服务业中有较大潜力，但需要一个较长的培育过程。相对而言，工业是最有希望较快突破山区自然备件束缚，加速山区现代化的经济门类。基于这种考虑，我们在稳步发展农业， Gucheng is one of 38 mountain counties in Hubei. From the perspective of economic development in the county economy, although agriculture accounts for a large proportion, the per capita cultivated land is less than 0.8 mu and the development space is small. There is great potential in the service industry, but a longer cultivation process is needed. In contrast, industry is the most promising economy to break through the shackles of natural mountains and to speed up the modernization of mountain areas. Based on this consideration, we are steadily developing agriculture,