The earliest settlement of Wuci began on the latter years of Emperor Kang Xi’s reign (1661-1722), when few immigrants from Anxi, Jinjiang and Nanan of Quanzhou, Fujian settled here. Trade with Fujian began in the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1735-1795) with junks sailing to and fro, which opened a new beginning. Merchants began setting up shops to do business and a small town originated in the latter years of Emperor Qianlong’s reign.

　　During the reign of Emperor Daoguang (1820-1850) Wuci Port reached its peak as the pivot of junk trade in central Taiwan with warehouses and stores standing one after another on the streets and different goods looking like little hills that took more than one thousand oxcarts to deliver per day.

　　Wuci was called Aoxi during the reign of Emperor Daoguang, administered by Chungpao, Dadu. It was renamed Wuci in 1891. Wuci and Aomuliao of Shalu was renamed Wuci Port Street, Tachia County in 1920, after the Japanese occupied Taiwan (1895-1945), due to the re-division of administrative areas. Wuci got back its name after Taiwan restoration. During the Japanese occupation, Japanese planned to construct “New Gao Port” in Wuci, however, the construction was put on hold due to Japan’s loss in World War II.

　　In 1968, Executive Yuan decided to construct Taichung Harbor, making Wuci an international harbor with industrial, commercial and fishing functions.

　　With the time for direct trade through the Taiwan Strait coming and government’s determination to build Taiwan into Asia-Pacific Operation Center, Taichung Harbor with its wide areas and appropriate position, is being added more constructions by the central government, making Wuci more and more important and become a rising new township of great potentials.