In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was named Jiuzi, belonging to the State of Wu. During the Warring States Period, Zhou Yuanwang defeated Wu in the fourth year (472 BC), which belonged to Yue State and was named Jiuzi. In the fourteenth year of Zhou Xian (355 BC), Chu destroyed Yue, which belonged to Chu and was named Jiuzi. During the Qin dynasty, the whole country was divided into 36 counties, and Wuhu belonged to Yan county, still named nine sons.
Wuhu was a prosperous town in the Southern Tang Dynasty, which was founded by businessmen in the Song Dynasty. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, "Shili Long Street, salty department stores, and the city was full of noise". Wuhu opened in Ming Dynasty and formed a huge rice market in Qing Dynasty, ranking first among the "four rice markets".
Wuhu, south of Anhui, north of Jianghuai Plain, the vast Yangtze River flows slowly from southwest to northeast, and Qingyi River flows through the city from southeast to northwest and joins the Yangtze River. It is a famous port city in history, a representative of the urban belt along the Yangtze River in Anhui Province, and an important foothold for Anhui to implement the strategy of integrating into the Yangtze River Delta.
Since the development of Pudong in Shanghai in the early 1990s, Wuhu, as the focus and breakthrough of Anhui's reform and opening up, has developed very rapidly, especially in manufacturing. Wuhu has built fist brands such as Chery Automobile, Conch and Conch Profile, and started the first shot of Wuhu manufacturing.
As the transportation hub of Anhui, the coastal cities in East China are the main roads leading inland. Wuhu Port in China is the last deep-water port in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. At present, it is building the first 100-million-ton inland river port together with Maanshan Port.
In addition, Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge is one of the landmark buildings in China in the 20th century, and it is also a leading bridge in terms of scale and technological content among the highway and railway bridges built on the Yangtze River. Its completion has improved the road network layout of China railways and highways, communicated the north-south traffic, further improved the function of the second passage in East China, strengthened the regional economic ties of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and promoted the formation of the economic life circle in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.