| It is a milestone in the regional economic development history of Wuhu, evenin the economic history of the whole Anhui province that Wuhu was open to be atrading port in1876.Wuhu has advanced towards the modern commercial andindustrial city since then. Then new superseding the old has taken place continusly.So the transformation of relations between town and country from tradition tomodernization was initiated. With modern industry and commerce rising, theeconomy of urban developed gradually. City could provide many livelihoodopportunities because of the rise of modern business, and then attracting peasantscame to make a living, urban population increased, giving rise to make changes inthe structure of urban population. Economic development and population growthprompted the urban construction progressively and perfect. The progress of urbanconstruction causing more charm, and these improved the quality of urbanresidents. Town by a single function of the military-dominated turned to a maineconomy multifunctional type. City radiated and infiltrated new economic factorsto rural through a hierarchical market. Strengthen linkages and interactionbetween urban and rural economies, the influence brought by urban, promotingrural economic were restructured. In the same way, the influence werestrengthened that given by rural. In the progress of developing urban, it need moresupport from rural. With the exchange between urban and rural relationship, thegovernment implemented the transformation of the rural political, economic,cultural, and sanitation measures by village cadres at the grassroots level andtrained technical and professional personnel, improve rural social customs, andrural education and health undertaking given initial launch. Modern relationbetween urban and rural that had grown up was the result of the influence ofexternal forces largely. Its ability to eliminate the antagonistic relationshipbetween urban and rural was extremely weak; therefore when a progressiveeconomic links between urban and rural accessed to the growing antagonismbetween urban and rural was increasingly aggravating. |