Monkey Town has a long history and profound cultural heritage. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, there was the appeasement department. From February 1934 to February 1935, the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants held a famous "Monkey Field Conference" in the monkey field. There are many cultural relics and historic sites in China, including the site of Monkey Field Conference, Mao Zedong's former residence, Qin Song's former residence, Tusi Yamen, Fu Yushu's former residence, Weng Yumei's headquarters for fighting bandits with iron walls, and the cemetery of the 18th revolutionary martyrs, among which the site of Monkey Field Conference is the national patriotic education base. Caotang has a long history of playing with dragons and lions, and was named as "the hometown of national folk art dragons and lions" by the Ministry of Culture.

Monkey farm town is rich in resources. Raw coal, bauxite, pyrite, iron ore, silicon ore and other mineral resources have large reserves, high grade and high development value. There are five coal mines in the town with an annual output of more than 90,000 tons. Rich in tourism resources, eagle cave, East Sichuan River Waterfall, Sixia Stone Forest and other natural landscapes are fascinating; The human landscape such as the site of the Monkey Field Congress and Houyan Temple makes people linger. Preserved eggs, soybean oil skin and other local products have a long history and are well known.

The agricultural economy of Houchang Town has developed rapidly, with large planting area and high yield of peppers and tomatoes. It is a commodity vegetable base in the county and even the whole province. At present, there are 3 pig farms with an annual output of more than 10,000 pigs, covering more than 30 households in 5 villages/kloc-0, and the annual output of sows 1 000, which has promoted the vigorous development of aquaculture in the whole town.