The town has a total area of 14 1 km2 and a population of 70,000. Administer 1 1 village and 4 community committees. In 2004, the total output value of industry and agriculture was 620 million yuan, including 400 million yuan of industrial output value, 2 1.25 million yuan of fiscal revenue and 33 1 yuan of per capita net income of farmers.
Wujiang today has obvious location advantages and convenient transportation. It is connected with a bridge in Pukou District of Nanjing and a crossing in Maanshan. The distance from Wujiang to Nanjing is equivalent to the distance from Xiaoshan to Hangzhou Wulin Square. It takes only 50 minutes from Wujiang to Nanjing Lukou Airport and 20 minutes to Nanjing-Hangzhou Expressway.
Wujiang is a thousand-year-old town with profound cultural heritage. It is the hometown of Zhang Ji, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xiaoxiang, Zhang Xiaobo and Zhang Jizhi, famous writers and calligraphers in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Lin Sanzhi, a contemporary sage of grass.