The ancient kiln site of Kejia Village in Fanchang, "Wanniudun" in Pingpu Township of Fanchang, the mound tomb of wuyue in Nanling and the site of Dagongshan copper mine in Nanling are all national key cultural relics protection units. The opening poem of The Book of Songs, Guan Ju sings: Guan Ju's dove is in Hezhou. A beautiful and virtuous woman is a good spouse of a gentleman. The pheasant dove in the poem is a kind of water bird, also called dove bird.
Wuhu was called Jiuzi in ancient times, with a recorded history of 2,500 years. In the second year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, namely 109 BC, Wuhu was famous for its numerous lakes and grasses. Historically, Wuhu's agriculture, handicrafts and commerce were quite developed. There were "towers" and "thousands of fireworks" in the Southern Tang Dynasty. After the Southern Song Dynasty, especially in the Yuan Dynasty, Wuhu was already a prosperous town. Since the Ming Dynasty, it has gradually become an important commercial port in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Handicrafts such as sizing and dyeing are well known. Tiangong, written by Song Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, has the saying that weaving is better than Songjiang (Shanghai) and pulp dyeing is better than Wuhu, forming a large-scale pulp dyeing workshop, which is called "Wuhu Giant Shop".
1876, the Yantai Treaty signed by China and Britain turned Wuhu and Wenzhou, Zhejiang into trading ports. The signing of this unequal treaty not only brought great impact to Wuhu's national economy, caused abnormal development, but also opened the door to Wuhu's opening to the outside world. 19 18 Wuhu customs' import and export value reached 3.5% of the national foreign trade in that year, and it is one of the trading ports in the Yangtze River basin.
The Wu Shen Canal, which starts and ends in Wuhu and Shanghai, closely links Wuhu with the economy and culture of Jiangsu, Wuxi, Nanjing and Hangzhou. In Qing Dynasty, Wuhu formed a vast rice market, which was also called the four rice markets in China with Wuxi, Changsha and Jiujiang.
After the opening of Wuhu, a large number of western goods were sold to the mainland through Wuhu, and a large number of foreign firms and companies entered Wuhu. At the same time, the spread of advanced science and technology also stimulated the development of modern industry in Wuhu. Exhibition. The earliest national industry in Anhui Province was established in Wuhu. 1883 Wuhu set up a wired telegraph line, which is the earliest city in the province to use telegraph.
1897 Yixin (Mechanical Mill) Rice Flour Company was the first one in China at that time. In 1930s, civil aviation also opened flights to Shanghai and Wuhan. After entering the 20th century, Wuhu's industry and commerce developed to more than 100, with five or six thousand merchants, becoming the birthplace of modern industry in Anhui and one of the economic centers in the Yangtze River basin.
Due to the historical inheritance, cultural diversity, openness and tolerance, all corners of the country are eclectic, and Wuhu people have a strong sense of openness and innovation. In the early days of reform and opening up, the "fool melon seeds" in Wuhu was mentioned three times by Mr. Deng Xiaoping, and was known as the "Primula" of China's private economy.
In the 1990s, Wuhu became a national open city along the Yangtze River. In Wuhu, we have long carried forward the innovative culture of "advocating innovation, tolerating failure, supporting entrepreneurship and encouraging innovation", and encouraged and supported "entrepreneurship by capable people, entrepreneurship by ordinary people and entrepreneurship by cadres". Openness, honesty, pragmatism and innovation have become the spirit of Wuhu people, leading Wuhu to make great strides forward.
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Wuhu was liberated in April, 1949. Over the past decades, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and with the efforts of the people of the whole city, Wuhu has undergone earth-shaking changes, from a semi-feudal and semi-colonial deformed consumer city to a new socialist city.
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