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Wuhu Shipyard is a Chinese shipbuilding enterprise in Wuhu, Anhui, with a lineage traced by company and maritime sources to Fujiheng Machinery Plant in 1900. Its defense relevance comes from a long role in small combatants, landing craft, minesweeping craft, survey vessels, patrol boats, boat bridges, and military auxiliary vessels, while its current public business also emphasizes commercial newbuilds such as chemical tankers, bulk carriers, multi-purpose vessels, car carriers, and offshore-support ships.
2 weaponsThe yard sits within Wuhu's Yangtze River shipbuilding base rather than in a single-product arms-manufacturer mold. GlobalSecurity describes Wuhu as one of China's century-old military shipbuilding enterprises and notes a succession through state machinery and shipbuilding ministries, China National Shipbuilding Corporation, China State Shipbuilding Corporation, and a 2007 restructuring under Chery Automobile control. TrustedDocks lists the modern company as a Wuhu, China ship repair yard and newbuilding yard, with an address at 1 E'xi Road in the Sanshan Economic Development Zone.
For this catalog, Wuhu Shipyard is most visible through smaller naval platforms and military auxiliary craft rather than large surface combatants. Public references connect the yard to the Type 074 / Type 074A landing-ship family and to the older Type 024 / Heku missile boat program, while broader yard histories describe production of torpedo boats, patrol craft, minesweepers, comprehensive survey ships, bridge boats, and other military support vessels. Its commercial portfolio is now much wider, but those naval and auxiliary lines explain why Wuhu appears in weapon-manufacturer facets.
GlobalSecurity identifies Wuhu Shipyard as the yard that built the first Type 074 boat in 1995 and describes the Type 074A as the later landing-craft branch of the family.
Sources: Type 074 Yuhai LSM / Type 074A Yubei LCU
GlobalSecurity states that the No. 701 Institute developed the small steel guided-missile boat at Wuhu and that Wuhu Shipyard completed and handed over the boat in December 1966.
Sources: PCFG Houku / Hegu ClassOfficial and maritime sources trace Wuhu Shipyard's modern predecessor to Fujiheng Machinery Plant, a Wuhu machinery and ship-repair enterprise founded in 1900.
Sources: About Wuhu Shipyard, TrustedDocks Wuhu Shipyard profile
GlobalSecurity's yard history says Wuhu Shipyard produced hundreds of military vessels in this period and highlights early Chinese shipbuilding firsts such as wooden torpedo speedboats and minesweeping craft.
Sources: Wuhu Shipyard Co., Ltd - China State Shipbuilding Corp.
GlobalSecurity reports that Wuhu Shipyard trial-produced the small steel guided-missile boat and completed construction for handover to the navy in December 1966.
Sources: PCFG Houku / Hegu Class
GlobalSecurity identifies Wuhu Shipyard as the yard that built the first Type 074 landing ship in 1995, with one vessel exported to Sri Lanka that same year.
Sources: Type 074 Yuhai LSM / Type 074A Yubei LCU
China Daily reported that Chery Automobile bought the local Wuhu Shipyard and was restructuring it; GlobalSecurity similarly describes 2007 control by Chery Automobile after restructuring.
Sources: Chery buys shipyard to boost auto exports, Wuhu Shipyard Co., Ltd - China State Shipbuilding Corp.
The official Wuhu Shipyard English site is available at en.wuhu.com.cn but presented an expired TLS certificate during this review; official pages were used only for public company background and contact details corroborated by independent maritime/reference sources.
Category
Warships, submarines, unmanned surface vessels, naval craft, and maritime combat systems.