清康熙六年(1667)康熙帝诏设安徽省建制。乾隆二十五年(1760年)安徽省会从江宁迁安庆,直到1938年抗日战争爆发省会迁合肥,期间170多年间,安庆一直是安徽的政治、经济、文化中心,早在1862年就制造出我国第一台蒸汽机,1865年制造出我国第一艘木质小火轮。芜湖、安庆通商口岸对外开放后,英、美、日、德等国家的洋油、太古糖、香烟、洋布、 Qing Emperor Kangxi six years (1667) Emperor Kangxi set up in Anhui Province. During the 25 years of Qianlong (1760), Anhui Province moved from Anqin to Jiangning. Until the anti-Japanese war broke out in 1938, the provincial capital moved to Hefei. During 170 years, Anqing was the political, economic and cultural center of Anhui and was built as early as 1862 China’s first steam engine, 1865 to create China’s first wooden small steamer. After the Wuhu and Anqing ports of commerce were opened up to the outside world, foreign oil, Pacific sweets, cigarettes, foreign fabrics and other fabrics from Britain, the United States, Japan, Germany and other countries,