Wuhu / 芜湖

Wuhu / 芜湖 is the Anhui city used in No.211 徽商往事：从前世不修到最牛风投 to explain the early Chery / 奇瑞 story. The episode says Wuhu was looking for a new growth point in the 1990s as traditional light industry weakened, then pursued automobile manufacturing despite licensing constraints and scarce operating experience.

The city’s Chery case is presented as a local industrial breakthrough built in a policy gap. Wuhu-backed entities funded the project, bought a secondhand Ford engine line from Britain, recruited Yin Tongyue, and used local taxi demand before Chery gained formal production-list access through its SAIC arrangement.

Connections

• 安徽 / Anhui - province-level setting.
• Chery / 奇瑞 - core company case.
• Hefei / 合肥 - later provincial industrial-investment comparison.
• Automobile City Path Dependence - auto manufacturing as city identity and constraint.
• Merchant To Industrial City Upgrade - regional shift from commerce to scalable production.