According to DouAn autonomous county government controller introduces, the DouAn weaving industry started from the early 1970’s, when only for their own use. The 1980 s, to Sue township have two brothers and a few young people Webster, with these weaving broke into the guangzhou fair. Environmental protection and chic weaving by foreign friends love, since then open the door of the export products also from originally of bamboo basket hats, slowly expanded to all kinds of the rattan product makes up now, there are more than 1000 varieties.

Since in recent years, DouAn town innovation mechanism, promoting science and technology training, willow basket weaving technical guidance and other activities, and incentive migrant workers involved in the production and the processing of the arts and crafts to build "bamboo and rattan weaving handicraft township ." At present the county knitting products have been sold to Japan, America, France, more than 20 countries and regions. According to statistics, in 2008 the export handicraft knitting DouAn reached 103.5219 million yuan, delivers the tax 8.8368 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%, knitting industry throughout 14 towns, its sustainable income growth and become one of the main county farmers income.