［Land］Until the end of 2004, the total administrative area of Hekou District was 3,208,000 mu, 15.66 mu per capita and 37.93 mu per capita in rural area, which was 6 times the per capita number of Shandong Province, and 2.3 times that of Dongying City; and the total agricultural acreage was 585,000 mu, 2.93 mu per capita and 5.04 mu per rural capita.
［Water］There are two sources of usable surface water resources in Hekou District: natural precipitation and water of Yellow River. Meteorological data says that the mean annual precipitation in Hekou District is 538.2mm, and the annual normal surface runoff is about 130,000,000 cubic meters (55,000 cubic meters per sq. km.). The five rural towns, covering a total area of 1,134 sq. km. has a surface runoff of 60,000,000 cubic meters. Water from the Yellow River is the main supply of fresh water for the lack of groundwater resources.
［Minerals］There is an abundant deposit of oil and natural gas under the ground of 3 counties, 3 towns and 1 neighborhood in the District. The annual oil output is 45％ of the total in the Victory Oilfield. Geothermal resources are distributed mainly in Xinhu, Taiping, Yihe, Gudao and Wuhaozhuan. The geothermal wells explored in recent years are used for household heating. There are high quality bittern deposits in the coastal area of the District, in which the bittern salinity is 104g/l. Within each liter of bittern, there are 675mg bromide ions, 26mg strontium ions and the same or more amounts of other ions in Sichuan black bittern. The shell deposit is mainly in the west coast with a preliminary evaluated quantity of more than 50,000,000 tons. The calcium carbonate content in shells is high. While the layer of shell deposit is naked, it is easy to exploit. Coal is mainly distributed in Xinhu, Taiping and Yihe. Because it is buried deep underground, so no exploitation has been done yet.
［Plants and Animals］Ligneous plants including willow, locust tree, tung, cypress, mulberry, elm, Cedrela chinensis and branchy tamarisk grow in Hekou. Most of them are locust tree and branchy tamarisk growing mainly in the east and north of the district. Branchy tamarisk, mostly grows in the wild, are now grown artificially. There are fruit trees of 6 species including apple, pear, peach, apricot, Chinese date and grape. There are 125 species of 41 families’ wild herbaceous plants, which can be divided into 8 categories according to their economic values such as for fodder, medicine, fiber, oil, textile, mulberry, tannin extract and chemistry.? The majority plants are fodder plants, medical plants and fiber plants. As to fodder plants, 85 species, going to 22 families and 85 categories, can be used for fodder, of which 19 are Gramineae, 17 are Compositae, 10 are Chenopodiaceae, 9 are Leguminosae, and 1-5 for other families. There are 72 species of medical plants and 13 of fiber plants. Reed and apocynum are the most common. Reeds cover now 260,000 mu in the district. The major water plants are calamus, lotus and alga.
  [Animals] the home breeding animals include livestock, such as cattle (Bohai black cow and cow), horse, donkey, mule, pig, sheep, rabbit, dog, cat, deer and fox; and poultry, such as chicken (local breed, imported breed and black-bone chicken), duck, goose and pigeon. Wild animals include hare, fox, weasel, badger, hedgehog and bat. There are also many different birds, such as sparrow, swallow, woodpecker, pied magpie, owl, wigeon, quail, goshawk, tern, heron, swan, erne and falcon. Most of the birds are distributed in the coast, grassland and the Yellow River Bayou State Reserve Zone. Five of them have been listed as the First-grade State Protection birds, while another 26 have been listed as the Second-grade. As to insects, there are ladybird, green lacewing, hornet, oophagous trichogrammae, mantis, cicada, butterfly, dragonfly, spider and cricket. As to reptiles, there are snake, lizard, gecko, scorpion and earthworm as well as amphibians like frog and hoptoad. As to aquatic animals, there are 50 species such as fish, shrimp, snail and frog. The major fishes are carp, silver carp, spotted silver carp, grass carp, crucian and gurnet.