Wenzhou was called Ou in history and belonged to a County of Min (another name of Fukien Province) after Qing Dynasty having unified the whole country. It was the Capital of Donghai King ( also called Dong'ou King Zouyao) in 192 B.C. In 134, Yongning County grew out of Dong'ou Town of Xizhang'an County, the county jurisdiction was set up at the north shore of the lower reaches of Oujiang River, which was within today's Oubei Town of Yongjia County, that was the beginning of establishing county in Wenzhou area. In 323, Yongjia Prefecture grew out of four counties of Yongning, Angu, Hengyang, Songyang in the south of Xilinhai Prefecture, the prefecture jurisdiction was set up at the south shore of the lower reaches of Oujiang River (today's Lucheng District), that is the beginning of Wenzhou establishing Prefecture. In 662, Dongjia State was established and Wenzhou was established in 675, since then, over more 3000 years, the name of Wenzhou has not been changed and the border has also not been changed by a big margin. After the Revolution of 1911, on Nev.8, 1911, Wenzhou established Branch of Military Government, which was subordinate to Jiang Military Government.

　　In June 1914, Ouhai Dao (bigger than Prefecture) was established and governed two prefectures of Wenzhou and Chuzhou, the government office of Dao was located in Yongjia County, which was belonged to Zhejiang Province. In 1932, administrative supervision district was established. Wenzhou District was originally called No.10 County Administrative Supervision District and the office of commissioner was located in Yongjia County, which name was been changed for several times later, and was called No.4 Special District, No.3 Special District, Yongjia Administrative Supervision District and No.8 Administrative Supervision District. In April 1948, which was called No. 5 Administrative Supervision District.