Encouraged industries include electronic information, biological medicine, machinery manufacturing, food processing.

Mengzhou's main industries are machinery manufacturing, fur processing, food processing, and chemical production.

After several years' development, the zone has formed its pillar industries, which include tobacco processing, machinery manufacturing, electronic information, and biotechnology.

At first, metalworking was the focus of activity, but machinery manufacturing gradually gained prominence, becoming the main occupation in the last quarter of the 19th century.

Between 1982 and 1986, the hardest-hit sector was machinery manufacturing, which lost 325,700 jobs, a 15 percent decline, to 1,863,000 employees.

Nagoya, which faces Ise Bay, is a center for heavy industry, including iron and steel and machinery manufacturing.

It is an integral industrial free zone specialized in defense industries and vehicles and machinery manufacturing.

It has formed and encourages the following industries which is electronic information, machinery manufacturing, bio-pharmaceuticals.

There is some small industry in Olst (machinery manufacturing) and Wijhe (meat processing).

When lead deposits began becoming exhausted, the pioneers developed boat building, lumber yards, milling, brewing, and machinery manufacturing to take its place.