清江古名清江浦,属淮阴县辖,位于南运河中段沿岸,是当时南北水运的枢纽。每年经清江浦北运的漕粮高达六百万石,淮盐也行销皖豫四十一个州县,年征课银达二十七万两。光绪三十年(1904)四月,经驻清江浦的漕运总督陆元鼎奏请,在清江浦设立 Qingjiang ancient name Qingjiang Pu, is under the jurisdiction of Huaiyin County, located in the middle of the South Canal along the coast, was the hub of the North-South water transport. Each year by the Qingjiang Pu Yun Yun grain up to six million stone, Huai salt also marketing forty-one counties in Henan Province, the annual levy of silver twenty-two thousand two hundred. Thirty years Guangxu (1904) April, by the governor of Qingyunpu Lu Yuanling invited to set up in Qingjiangpu