Located on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Huangshi is an important raw material industrial base, a new industrial and trade city and an important port for opening up the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Huangshi is known as "the ancient capital of bronze", "the cradle of steel", "the hometown of cement" and "the new clothing city". As early as more than 3,000 years ago, in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, our ancestors made great efforts to cast drums here, which wrote a brilliant chapter for the splendid bronze culture in ancient China, leaving a famous ancient mining and metallurgy site of Tonglushan at home and abroad. From 65438 to 1980s, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of the two lakes in the Qing Dynasty, set up Daye Iron Mine and Ironmaking Plant in Huangshi, and later established Hanyeping Company, the first steel joint venture in China history. It opened the first chapter of modern metallurgical industry in China and became the cradle of modern iron and steel industry in China. Huangshi is also known as the "hometown of cement". Hubei Cement Company, which was born in 1907, once had the title of "the first in the Far East" and is still one of the largest cement groups in China. Since the 1990s, Huangshi garment industry has sprung up suddenly, with many famous brands, including Kangsai T-shirt, which won the only gold medal in China, and Meiya suit, which won the European Quality Award. In particular, Meierya Clothing Group has become a large listed enterprise group with an annual foreign exchange earning of10.2 billion dollars after more than 0 years of development.

Huangshi was founded in 1950, which was one of the two provincial cities in Hubei Province at that time. Over the past 50 years, especially in the last 20 years, Huangshi's economy and society have undergone earth-shaking changes. A number of well-known large and medium-sized enterprises in the whole province and even the whole country have been built one after another, forming an industrial system with raw material industry as the main body and large and medium-sized enterprises as the backbone, and metallurgy, building materials, electricity, machinery, textiles, chemicals, light industry, electronics and other industries developing in an all-round way. According to statistics, * * * Already, 17 products have won national gold and silver medals, 142 products have won the title of provincial superior, 13 trademarks have been awarded as famous trademarks in Hubei Province, and "Meierya" has been awarded as a national famous trademark, forming a multi-level, multi-series and multi-variety famous product group, which has effectively promoted the development of advantageous industries and enterprises in our city.