Wuhu City, Anhui Province is located southeast of the south bank of Yangtze River. South Hill in Southern Mountains, north Jianghuai Plain, vast city of the Yangtze River from southwest to northeast flow slowly, Qingyi from southeast to northwest, through the city, empties into the Yangtze. Wuhu is the seat of the city of old and young, known as "giant Yangtze River port, the backbone of Anhui," the reputation of the Anhui and the front window of reform and opening up.
area of 3317 square kilometers in Wuhu City, is under the jurisdiction of three counties (Wuhu, Fanchang, Nanling), four districts (New Wu, Matang, Mirror Lake, Pigeon River), the city's population of 222 million people.
After the founding of Wuhu in Wuhu county on the basis of the original developed, according to historical records and the Beijing University history student of Geography, Wuhu than two thousand years of history. City site has undergone several changes with the expansion of the process.
Song Dynasty, the country's economic center of gravity gradually southward. To promote the development of agriculture, Tai Hing Building Fair, a large lake into farmland. Built in the Wuhu region of the governance and Wei, Wei spring line, Tao Wei Xin Wei and Wanchun and so on. Promote the economic development of agriculture and commercial handicrafts rise rapidly expanding urban areas, along the Yangtze River in Wuhu became a city. About the eleventh century, the Sung Dynasty Village, Wuhu city wall built. High outside this northern town board posts, which are all outside the east gate tower Songcheng sites. Song Jian Yan year period (1127-1130) Kinbyo continue southward invasion, Wuhu City, soldiers were burned into ruins. Chun Xi seven years (1180) and fortification, but has as before prosperity. Again the recovery Yuan Wuhu County, the population had reached five million people, but will again in the late Yuan Bing Huo destroyed. Ming Dynasty and gradually restore the economy of Wuhu developed, local traders and artisans from numerous business sectors, to dyed pulp industry and the steel industry is particularly well-developed collection of goods north and south. Three years of Ming Dynasty (1575) re-fortification of Wuhu, most of the overlap with the Sung Dynasty Village. Among more than 200 years of Qing Dynasty (1876 years ago), Wuhu business with the continuous development of handicraft industry, into a new industrial and commercial city along the Qingyi to form a commercial center estuary, known as "the ten Street", reached an unprecedented prosperity.
April 1949 the liberation of Wuhu City. For decades the Chinese Communist Party leadership and the efforts of people throughout the city, Wuhu has undergone tremendous changes, from a semifeudal and semicolonial of abnormal development of the consumer city, transform into a new socialist city.
Wuhu City is very rich historical and cultural resources. Fanchang County, "the word hole", is the ancient human major archaeological discovery, discovery of ancient human made stone tools, bone and diverse variety of mammalian fossils, dating the time about ten thousand years ago between 2000000-250 to the history of human activities in Asia traced back the forty to fifty years, have attracted worldwide attention. Fanchang Ke Ka ancient kiln, Changping Pu Xiang Fan "million cattle Pier" and the tomb mound Nanling Wu Yue, a large work Nanling Copper ruins, are the national key cultural relics protection units.
Wuhu Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge, water and land transportation convenience puts up north and south, known as China's bridge construction in the history of the fourth milestone. Wuhu industry formed a building materials, motor vehicles and parts, electrical and electronic three pillar industries. The Conch Group, the China and Asia as the main enterprise, Wuhu has become the largest cement production base in China and Asia's largest pvc pipe, profile production base. |