Acheng District is located 23 km southeast of Harbin, covering an area of 2,452 square kilometers, with its basic landforms featuring “70% mountains, 10% water and 20% fields”. It has 7 towns, 12 streets and 108 administrative villages and 808 natural villages under its jurisdiction, with a population of 597,000, including a rural population of 342,000 and more than 109,000 agricultural households. It has 1.088 million-mu arable land, 60,000- mu grassland, 200,000-mu waters, with 14 small and big rivers, and 1.55 million-mu woodland, with forest coverage rate reaching up to 49.4%.
　　Acheng is an important commodity grain base in Harbin, with available arable land of 1.194 million mu, with total grain output in 2012 reaching 601 million kg. In recent years, Acheng has been adhering to leading role of vegetable industrial base construction, with importance attached to the development of five-type agriculture, i.e. “Urban Type, Ecological Type, Sightseeing type, Leisure Type and Science and Technology Demonstration Type”, with such characteristic agricultural products as local vegetables, duck rice, sticky bean buns and small berries highly popular with people. Currently, 2 modern science and technology demonstration zones have been established in the whole district, with the vegetable growing area expanded to 130000 mu, with 5 kinds of products provided with certified national geographical indications and 674 kinds of pollution-free, green and organic agricultural products. Acheng has been granted the titles “Home of Garlic” and “Home of Rice” successively, with a road with regional features for modern agricultural development taken.
　　In 2012, Acheng realized a total output value of farming, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery of ￥5.17 billion, up 7%, compared with the same period of previous year, and realized farmers’ per capita net income of ￥9817, up 15%, compared with the same period of previous year.