Wuhan,an important national industrial base, is characterized by her solid industrial foundation and strong comprehensive supporting system. By now, Wuhan has already developed into 13 unique industrial zones. More than 30,000 industrial enterprises of 33major kinds, 165 mid-sized kinds, and 6.7 small - sized kinds revolve around the four pivot industry, namely steel, automobile, mechanics and hi-tech industries.

Wuhan Iron and steel (group) Company, the largest steel-plate production base in China, reaches its annual production target of 7 million tons of iron and steel. At present, the company is undertaking its reconstruction, so as to speed up toward the annual production target of double ten million tons of iron and steel.

Wuhan Heavy Machine Tool factory, Wuhan Boiler Group, Changjiang Dynamical Company, and Wuhan Gehua Group are famous national big enterprises.Their products enjoy the reputation of excellent quality home and abroad, for example, heavy-duty and super heavy-duty machine tools and digitalcontrol machine tools as masters, high-precision grinder, industrial boiler special for the ultra-high voltage power station, ships, turbo generator, screw-driven refrigerator, and large sized cast product. Wuhan industry enjoys a complete and balancing development of machine tool equipment, electronic equipment, textile mechanism, building mechanism, chemical mechanism, and medical mechanism. Wuhan is one of the four bases of textile industry.

Wuhan Petroleum Chemical Factory has a capacity of producing 5-million-ton crude oil. Wuhan paper manufacturing takes a very important position in China. Others like light industry, electronics, medicament, building material and chemical industry also have their own characteristics and advantages.Moreover,the manufacturing capacity is in the leading position of China.