Resource's superiority is transforming economic superiority progressively.Minerals, forestry, water conservancy and tourist resource in Longyan Prefecture are abundant and their development has a broad prospects.

Minerals:
Longyan Prefecture is the nearest mining areas and forest zone to the coastal ports in southeast China. Sixty kinds of ferrous and non-ferrous metals have been verified.According to the appraisal of experts raw ore of main sevent een kinds of mian mineral products values over RMB 750 hundred million yuan. Zij inshan goldcopper mine in Shanghang county is the sevond largest pay iron deposi t in East China. And the kaoline deposit at Donggongxia, Longyan City, is one of the four quality deposit in China.Building material and metallurgical intustrie s have a bright future.

Forestry:
Longyan Prefecture is one of the three great forests in Fujian Provinc e. As far as the eyes stretch green are the wooded mountains. The forest zone co vers an area of 17.7 million mu planted more than 300kinds of trees which mao ba mboo is 1.3 hundred million. To develop papermaking and limber processing indust ries are well worth doing.

Water conservancy:
Three big river system, namely Ting jiang, Jiulong jiang Beix i and Minjiang Shaxi, flow through Longyan Prefecture. The water power in the ar ea can produce 124 hundred thousand kilowatts.Minerals is abundant and hot spring is resourceful, too.