Huatugou town belongs to Mangya Administrative Committee under the jurisdiction of Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province. Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is at the same level as prefecture level cities. There is only one prefecture level city in Qinghai Province. Other administrative regions at the same level are one region and five minority autonomous prefectures. Mangya administrative committee is an administrative unit at the same level as county-level cities, counties and districts.
The preliminarily proved minerals in Huatugou town include coal, oil and gas, iron, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, lithium, strontium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, salt, boron, mirabilite, serpentinite, gypsum, asbestos, talc, limestone, clay crystal, mica, etc. Among them, the reserves of celestite are 15.929 million tons, accounting for 66% of the world's reserves. The reserves of oil, natural gas, potassium salt and mirabilite are also very rich. Other reserves such as gold, silver, lithium and zinc account for a certain proportion in the province.
There are more than 250 kinds of wild plant resources, such as Cynomorium songaricum, licorice, ephedra, rhubarb, medlar, snow lotus, cattail, reed root, Salix psammophila, seabuckthorn and alpine willow. Wild animal resources include more than 110 kinds of national first-class protected animals, such as wild yak, wild camel, wild horse, snow leopard, Tibetan antelope, wild donkey and national second-class protected animals, such as brown bear, yellow sheep, rock sheep, lynx and Tibetan snow chicken.