Gaocun Township is a hilly and mountainous township with agriculture as the main industry. The soil is red clay, which is fertile and belongs to medium-high fertility land. The climate is characterized by warm spring, hot summer, cool autumn and cold winter, alternating four seasons, frequent droughts and floods, less rain and windy spring, and concentrated hot rain in summer, which is called nine droughts in ten years. The main food crops are wheat, corn, millet and beans. The cash crops are mainly tobacco leaves, and the characteristic industries are black crops, pepper and so on.
In 20 10, the gross domestic product was 5710.25 million yuan, the investment in fixed assets was 550.04 million yuan, the added value of service industry was10.526 million yuan, and the general budget revenue of township finance was 8.25 million yuan. Remarkable achievements have been made in the adjustment of industrial structure, and the adjustment of industrial structure focusing on tobacco, pepper, black crops and animal husbandry has been continuously improved. In 20 10, 2333 hectares of tobacco leaves, 65438 hectares of pepper and 600 hectares of black crops were planted.