Famous Local Products of Mianyang

Mianyang boasts a great variety of renowned specialties and handicrafts, including wood carvings, lacquerware, antique-style furniture, wall hangings, tie-dye works, jute carpets, water-polished lacquerware, glass paintings, folding fans and bamboo craft ornaments. Other well-known local products include Pingwu candied jujubes and plum strips, Xuebao milk, as well as Zhongba soy sauce from Jiangyou.

Endowed with abundant natural resources, Mianyang produces tea, walnuts, bracken, wood ear mushrooms, various fruits and traditional Chinese medicinal herbs. Among them, medicinal herbs enjoy the highest reputation.

The city is rich in such herbal medicines as monkshood root, common monkshood mother root, dwarf lilyturf tuber, gastrodia tuber, salvia miltiorrhiza, magnolia flower and balloon flower root. These products sell well both at home and abroad and constitute an important source of local income. When traveling in Mianyang, you may also take these precious medicinal herbs as souvenirs.