The initial stage of reform and opening up in 1978, according to the needs of the county's economic development, the expansion of the loading and unloading business and social needs in the original county handling station on the basis of the formation of the county handling company, and then there is a Li-nong gate heavy vertical dock shoreline of more than a hundred meters, there are eight sets of crane, the size of more than a dozen sets of transport vehicles, more than fifty manpower flatbed trucks, more than ten gates of the office space, 121 Along the River Road. More than twenty office rooms, meeting rooms six parking lot of more than 300 square meters, more than 100 staff quarters, and repair workshops and warehouses.
In 1983, according to the county's economic development and the enterprise's own development needs, approved by the higher level, in the original county handling company on the basis of the formation of the county port management office, from then on the expansion of efficiency caused by the development of the port of Jinhu to the first big leap. Since 1983 to 1998 in 15 years, Jinhu port development faster, during this period of time, the county port management office has set up a gate operation area, stone port operation area, Linong operation area, south operation area, Jinbei operation area, and the formation of the county's second car transport company, installation company, opened a boiler plant, color paper factory, craft factory, comprehensive stores, etc., the dock construction of more than 1,000 meters of shoreline, covers an area of 25,000 More than 1,000 square meters of quay construction, covering an area of 25,000 square meters, 24 berths, 24 crane cranes, hundreds of manpower flatbed trucks, but also equipped with forklifts, bakery machines, motorized flatbed trucks, long-distance and short-distance transport vehicles, more than 30 units, and there are staff canteens, staff bathrooms, staff infirmary, staff barber shop, more than 470 employees. At this time the port really for the development of Jinhu economy, for industrial and agricultural production services played a pivotal role.
In 1999, the county government according to the county planning, county environmental improvement needs, in order to reduce pollution, convenient for residents to live, and to adapt to the development of the county economy, decided to take the shime within the county 35 bulk bulk dispersal points, and gradually closed to the Licheng gate dock mainly the size of 11 port management of the management of the dock, the new Jinhu new port. 2000, a wharf shoreline of 430 meters covers an area of nearly 35,000 square meters of the new port was completed in March of that year, the new port of a project officially opened for social operations. The first phase of the project shoreline 220 meters, covers an area of 17,600 square meters, 5 berths of 300 tons, 2 berths of 500 tons, 6 sets of 5-ton crane, 10-ton crane and a crane and 15 office rooms, 800 square meters of warehousing sheds, more than 10,000 meters of goods yard, distribution room, toilets and other ancillary facilities. The port was built, greatly enhancing the port's external image and comprehensive service functions, increased throughput, the highest annual throughput of less than 400,000 tons in the past increased to nearly 600,000 tons, for the county's economic development and radiation around the county has played an irreplaceable role.
In the past few years, Jinhu County urban area continues to expand, the road network, bridge and culvert scientific supporting the development of residential life continues to improve, the living environment is changing day by day, the economic construction of the development of smooth, however, now running the port does not adapt to the environment and the needs of economic development, the county government Bureau of Transportation, far-reaching, extraordinary planning and re-site construction of the new port of Jinhujinhu, in the near future, an investment of 63 million yuan, covering an area of 400 acres, the shoreline of 830,000 tons. 400 acres, 830 meters of shoreline, throughput capacity of 3 million tons, complete facilities, warehousing, cargo yards, logistics as one of the new Jinhu Port will be displayed in front of the world.
Jinhu Port as a transportation banner along with the construction of the county has gone through more than 50 years of wind and rain, with the development of transportation and development, with the development of the county's economy and constantly changing, as the traffic and port people and feel gratified. At the same time from the port's constant changes and see the rapid development of the transportation industry, the past gravel road is now difficult to see in the countryside, and was replaced by the leachate road and concrete pavement, the past narrow bridges, dangerous bridges, wooden bridges will always be history, the past to walk with the car has been replaced by the north-south traffic vehicles, the past north-south pedestrians rely on a small wooden boat to cross the river has been replaced by a bridge over the East and West and the proposed North-South bridge, in the future will be the Jinhu map of the county. The future map of Jinhu will continue to increase traffic people new road network bridge letter and other infrastructure, today and the future of the transportation blueprint and the past traffic pattern can be feared is "the sky turned over and generous".