关键词: 芜湖, 安徽, 工业化, 过度繁荣

Abstract: From 1900 to 1930, real value of Wuhu external trade has been growing. After 1931, it began to decline. In this process, the commercial excessive prosperity in Wuhu and the other major cities of Anhui province resulted in too low investment and serious imbalance of the industrial structure. The modern industrialization process was slowly moving. Anhui province lags behind the national average. In the 1930s, Wuhu began to decline because of decline of trade and especially rice business. Industry is the basis of business development, but the development of the economy of Anhui province had violated the principle. Twenty years after the WWI was the period of rapid development of Chinas modern industry, however, Wuhu and the other cities of Anhui province still played the role of the regional commodity distribution center and failed to seize the favorable opptunity to vigorously develop the modern industry of excessive commercial development. Ultimately the decline is inevitable.

Key words: Wuhu, Anhui province, industrialization, excessive prosperity