Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, is China's important industrial base, covering an area of 8,400 square kilometers, and with a population of 6.8 million. It's located in a flat and low-lying land of an alluvial plain, and crisscross with rivers and streams along with numerous lakes and ports. Wuhan is at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Hanshui River. Wuhan is a China's inland key commercial center and the place of concentration and distribution for goods and materials, and Hankou in particular, is renowned for its flourishing commerce.

As the great industrial, commercial, and transportation center of central China, Wuhan develops a complete category of traditional manufacturing and high-tech industries. More than 30,000 industry enterprises inhabit in this city. Wuhan maintains five industrial poles of photoelectron, automobile, steel and iron, bio-medicine and environment protection. It has the country's second largest concentration of metallurgical facilities. Also in the city are railroad shops, textile mills, food-processing establishments, and plants making heavy machinery, glass, cement, fertilizer, electronics, and paper products.

The main import from USA includes machinery & electric products, medical instruments, electronic products and agricultural products. Wuhan continuously lunches big construction projects including airport expansion, light railway and Yangtze River canal building etc.

Situated in the heart of China, virtually equidistant from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chengdu, it is an air, river, and rail hub dominating the middle Chang plain; China's main north-south railroad runs through the city. The Yangtze river is there spanned by 6 mile-long bridges that accommodates both trains and motor vehicles. The busy port on the Yangtze, although about 600 mi from the sea, handles large oceangoing vessels.