While Hefei has a long history, its development was very slow in the old society. Until the eve of liberation, the urban area was only 5 square kilometers, with a population of 50,000 people, with broken walls, narrow streets, a depressed economy, and a backward education and culture.

After more than 40 years of construction, Hefei has changed from a small consumer city before the liberation to an emerging city full of vitality and vigor, and among the "top 50 Chinese cities in terms of comprehensive strength". 40 years, especially since the reform and opening up, Hefei's industrial economy to reform, transformation as the main theme, played a song of sustained, rapid and healthy development. A piece of music of sustained, rapid and healthy development. From 1949 to 1991, 42 years, Hefei industrial output value only exceeded 10 billion yuan, while in 1992, 1993 only two years, the new industrial output value of 10 billion yuan. Now the city has light industry, machinery, metallurgy, chemical industry, electronics, textiles, building materials and other 13 industrial categories, 32 industrial sectors; there are nearly 2,000 townships and townships above the independent accounting enterprises. Hefei's Meiling refrigerator, Rongshida washing machine, swan air-conditioner, Huangshan TV, Fangcao toothpaste, Shenlu stomach medicine, Fenling brand full-hydraulic excavator, full strength and a large number of industrial products such as car, has long been famous at home and abroad. Roads, water, gas, electricity and other key urban and rural infrastructure construction greatly accelerated. Now the daily supply of urban running water amounted to 845,000 cubic meters; 70,000 gas users; 200,000 kilowatts of installed capacity of power plants; 7.2 square meters of housing per capita; the construction of 21 kilometers of urban levee wall, to the flood control standards for 20 years; with more than 36,000 commercial outlets, the Four Courts of Justice, three filial piety has been the formation of the two major commercial shopping centers, rich in national characteristics of the Chenghuangmiao Department Store to bring together the world's finest products, welcoming customers from all directions; famous for the city's daily supply of water, gas, electricity and other key infrastructure. The city has more than 30,000 commercial outlets, two commercial shopping centers have been formed in Sipailou, Sanxiaokou, and the small department store of Chenghuangmiao with national characteristics gathers the world's best products and welcomes customers from all directions; the nationally famous wholesale market of farmers in Dashangjie, with business radiating to 26 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, and the high-level hotels such as Taoxiangwu Hotel, Luyang Hotel, Anhui Restaurant and Overseas Chinese Hotel, provide first-class services for the domestic and foreign guests.

Hefei City has initially formed a convenient three-dimensional transportation system and fast communication network. The Huainan Railway duplicate line runs through Hefei. It reaches Bengbu in the north, connecting with the Beijing-Shanghai line, and Wuhu in the south, connecting with the Anhui-Gan, Ningwu and Xuanhang lines. Passenger trains can reach Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Xiamen and major cities in the province directly from Hefei. Hefei - Fuyang - Shangqiu Railway has been opened for operation. Hefei to Jiujiang Railway has also been opened to traffic. Connected to the province, the domestic highway trunk lines in all directions, running through the east and west of China's National Highway 312 and across the north and south of National Highway 405 are in Hefei intersection, Heining Expressway has been opened to traffic. The construction of Hewu and He Tong highways is being accelerated. Hefei Luogang Airport is one of the eight major airports in China, with direct flights to more than 20 large and medium-sized cities in China as well as Hong Kong. Water transport from the South River via Chaohu can reach the Yangtze River ports, Hefei Port has become one of the top ten economic zones of the country's inland navigation network center, and is listed as the first batch of the Yangtze River water system development of key ports.

Hefei program-controlled telephone reached 200,000 doors, according to the city population, per capita 0.18 doors, according to the calculation of each household of 3 people, the average household 0.55 doors, long-distance calls can be directly dialed to more than 750 cities in the country and the world's 182 countries and regions; downtown cell phones and paging phones are also quite popular.

Ancient Luzhou opened the door to the overseas opened the arms of enthusiasm, so far has been successively with Japan's Kurume City, Sierra Leone's capital city of Freetown, Burundi's capital city of Bujumbura, the United States of America, Columbus and Aalborg, Denmark, the city of Friendship City. What really brings hope to Hefei's opening up to the outside world is the accelerated pace of opening up and development of the Yangtze River Delta and the Yangtze River Basin, with Pudong as the leader. Especially in 1992, the State Council formally approved Hefei City as the capital city of the inland provinces to enjoy the coastal open city policy, Hefei to introduce the use of foreign capital, the establishment of three-funded enterprises, foreign trade, foreign trade, development zones to take advantage of the momentum of the construction of the unprecedented pace of strides forward. Taiwan, Hong Kong and other famous industrialists Qiu Yonghan, Zhan Peizhong, Li Zhaofeng and other successive groups to visit Hefei to discuss the project, the foreign businessmen in Hefei has been expanded from Hong Kong, Taiwan and other regions to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the United States, Japan, South Korea and other more than 20 countries and regions