* Water: dense river system is distributed quite evenly over the the province with two major rivers flowing through the Red River and Chay River originates China and thousands of rivers, streams, large and small. These are favorable conditions for Lao Cai development of small and medium hydropower projects. The province has four sources of mineral water, hot water temperatures of about 400C and water ultra-light in Sa Pa district, currently unexploited and use.
* Forest: Total forest reserves in the province have 60.030m3 of wood (in which natural forests 2.497m3; 57.533m3 of plantation timber, wood paper material is 15.538m3); 1,254,988 of bamboo. The planned area of ​​334 301 hectares of forest land, accounting for 53.4% of total natural area of ​​the province, of which 334 893 hectares of forest land (including 261 484 hectares of natural forests, plantations is 7.3409 hectares).
Hoang Lien National Park (Sa Pa) with natural ecosystems which is very rich (which has 2,024 species of plants belonging to 200 families, including 66 species in Vietnam's Red Book, 32 rare species, 11 species at risk extinction as juniper green, Thiet Sam , the bamboo pine, red pine, nail accessories, Tungchestnut v.v ... 66 animals including 16 mammal species in Vietnam's Red Book , birds, mammals, reptiles, many species animals and plants especially rare and precious treasure gene bank of rare plants accounted for 50% of the rare plant species of Vietnam).
* Minerals: Lao Cai is one of the richest mineral provinces in Vietnam with 35 different types of minerals and over 150 mines. In which there are many kinds of minerals such as apatite, copper, iron, graphite materials for ceramic, porcelain, glass, ... with the largest reserves. Some mines have large reserves of easily exploitable, easy to transport and popular international market has created favorable conditions for the development of industrial minerals processing locally