Beijing Road, located in the center of Guangzhou, is the location where Guangzhou's urban construction began and the most prosperous commercial gold mine in Guangzhou.
The full-time walking of Beijing Road Commercial Pedestrian Street has gone through three stages: on February 8, 1997, with the approval of Guangzhou Municipal People's Government, some sections of Beijing Road are allowed to walk on weekends; From May 1998 to May 1, 200 1,1,the holiday pedestrian street is fully pedestrian; From June 65438+1 October1in 2002, the pedestrian street officially implemented full-time walking.
Beijing Road Pedestrian Street starts from Zhongshan Fifth Road in the north and ends at Huifu Road in the south, with a total length of 440 meters. Shops along the street 138, mainly engaged in clothing, department stores, shoes, catering, jewelry and so on. Clothing stores account for 34%; Department stores account for17%; Leather shoes account for15%; Catering accounts for14%; Jewelry accounts for11%; Culture category 5%; Health care accounts for 3%; Service class accounts for 1%. Located in the pedestrian street, Baiguang is the leading commercial enterprise in Guangzhou. The construction and development of Beijing Road Pedestrian Street has played a positive role in prospering Guangzhou's commercial tourism market and consolidating the position of Guangzhou's old city as a commercial center. Beijing Road Pedestrian Street has successively won the "National Civilized Commercial Street Demonstration Site" awarded by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China; * * * Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government awarded "Guangzhou's Advanced Unit for Creating China's Excellent Tourism City": the National Demonstration Point for Creating Spiritual Civilization awarded by the Office of the Central Spiritual Civilization Construction Steering Committee; The State Administration for Industry and Commerce issued the "One Street with 100,000 Shops Without Fakes and Satisfied with Counterfeiting and Rights Protection"; Guangzhou Municipal Price Bureau and Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision awarded the honorary title of "Trustworthy Unit of Price Measurement".
According to statistics, the daily average traffic of Beijing Road Pedestrian Street is 250,000. During the National Day Golden Week in 2002, the flow of people was as high as 300,000 person-times, and the flow density exceeded that of Nanjing Road in Shanghai and Wangfujing in Beijing. Now it has become the best place for citizens and tourists to shop, relax and entertain.
As the most prosperous pedestrian street in Guangzhou, besides McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut and other well-known international chain fast food restaurants, there are also many well-known Chinese and western food shops and time-honored brands, such as Murray Right Ice Room, Chow Sang Kee, Jubao Seafood Restaurant, Taiping Pavilion Western Restaurant, Natural Gate Indian Restaurant, Chicago Steakhouse, Rhine Pavilion Cafe and so on.
In terms of accommodation, the three-star Lido Hotel is located at the southern end of the pedestrian street. It has 350 rooms and is decorated in China style. The hotel has Dunhuang restaurant, mainly Cantonese cuisine, gathering the essence of oriental food culture, and supporting services such as western restaurant coffee shop, business center and various conference rooms. At the northern end of the pedestrian street, there is a four-star Guangzhou building. The building is 38 stories high, with a construction area of 60,000 square meters, and stands tall with Guangzhou's bonus face as the facade. The building has 453 rooms and more than 100 writing rooms. Well-equipped and comfortable. It has a modern business center, various entertainment and fitness venues, a banquet hall that can accommodate more than 400 people, restaurants with different characteristics, and Rongyuanfang Food Street, which brings together various folk snacks.
Beijing Road is located in the center of Guangzhou with convenient transportation. It is located at the intersection of Guangzhou Metro 1 Line and Line 2. Gongyuanqian station, the subway near Guangzhou Department Store, is the largest subway station in Southeast Asia. In addition, convenient bus lines connect all parts of the city. In addition, three large parking lots have been set up in Baiguang Square, a foreign-invested street at the northeast end of Beijing Road and Guangzhou Building, and five temporary parking lots have also been set up in the surrounding areas.
Beijing Road has not only a strong commercial flavor, but also a strong cultural heritage. Six cultural relics with a history of more than 1000 years are gathered here. They are the former site of Beijing Road Millennium Ancient Road, the former site of Millennium Gu Lou, the former site of Nanyue Royal Garden, the former site of Watergate in the Western Han Dynasty, the former site of shipbuilding workshop in Qin Dynasty and the former site of Millennium Ancient Temple. Among them, the remains of the ancient road were discovered in the summer of 2002. After excavation and verification by Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the ancient road began in the Tang Dynasty and ended in the Republic of China. Streets and pavements are stratified 1 1 floor: the gravel road on floor1/is about 3m deep from the surface, and the brick pavements on floors 10 and 9 belong to the Tang Dynasty. The 8th and 7th floors are made of bricks in the Southern Han Dynasty of the Five Dynasties. The 6th, 5th and 4th floors are in the Song Dynasty. The third layer is from Southern Song Dynasty to Yuan Dynasty; The stone road on the second floor belongs to the Ming Dynasty. There was mud from the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the relics of the Nanyue State period were found at a depth of 4.5 meters. There was a mud layer down until a depth of 7.9 meters, and gray-red raw soil was seen, indicating that this was once a river section. According to Shi Zhizai, Beijing Road has been the central axis of Guangzhou since Sui and Tang Dynasties. At the same time, the remains of the Millennium Gu Lou were found in the pedestrian street of Beijing Road.
According to the excavation and textual research of Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, this place is the ruins of the gatehouse in the three historical periods of Qing, Ming and Song San. Its remains are the foundation cushion soil and wooden pile column holes in Qing Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the west gate of the gatehouse was paved with stone pavements and drums. ; In the Song Dynasty, the west gate of the gatehouse was paved with bricks and stone thresholds. The Song Gate Tower was built three times, and the north-south span gradually expanded, which was 9 meters, 12 meters and 22 meters in turn. It is about a barrel deep from the water; The raw soil of the hill has been seen at 8 meters, indicating that it used to be a hilly area. According to Panyu County Records, there was Qinghai Building on Beijing Road in the Tang Dynasty, and there was a double que here in the Southern Han Dynasty. Song dynasty changed to double gatehouse. Destroyed in the yuan dynasty. Seven-year reconstruction of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1374). Rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, it was named Gongbei Building. In the eighth year of the Republic of China (19 19), the city was demolished and the Gongbei building was razed to the ground.
In this bustling business district of less than 0.38 square kilometers, there are not only business leaders such as Guangzhou Department Store, Xindaxin Department Store and Lili Department Store, but also more than 100 chain stores of Pierre Cardin, Baolong, Giordano, Baitu, Dorian Nu, Caffeine, Kechunde, Lerstein, Nike, Adidas and Apple. In addition, Guangming Square, Ming Sheng Square and other large commercial buildings are about to open.
In addition, the Guangzhou Youth Culture Palace, where the extracurricular activities of Guangzhou youth are located, is also located on Beijing Road. The Youth Cultural Palace was established in 195 1, which is the cradle of Guangzhou's youth. At present, the Youth Cultural Palace has established youth art training schools, sports training centers and youth network workstations, and has set up dance rooms, multi-function halls, music rooms, instrumental music rooms, painting and calligraphy art rooms, table tennis clubs, chess and card rooms, martial arts training halls, and a number of cultural, artistic and sports training programs such as piano, violin, electronic organ, music quality, solfeggio, dance, gymnastics, martial arts and taekwondo. Moreover, the youth fashion cultural square and the youth community cultural square under construction will inject new elements into this position of extracurricular activities for young people with a history of more than 50 years. By then, a film city will be built with the theme of film and integrating fashion, leisure and entertainment activities; At the same time, clubs such as reading, multimedia computers, scientific inventions and cultural and sports activities will be established to carry out healthy and fashionable community culture and square cultural activities, and provide places and stages for cultural, artistic, physical training and quality education for young people, as well as community services such as psychological counseling and legal aid.
In 2002, in the fourth phase reconstruction project of Beijing Road, Yuexiu District People's Government invested more than 6.5438+million yuan to resurface the pavements of pedestrian street, Xihu East Road and Yushan Road, add public facilities such as drinking fountains, lounge chairs and signs of public facilities, open leisure squares, set up green sketches, sculptures and background music, and install monitoring systems to build the pedestrian street of Beijing Road. After the transformation in recent years, Beijing Road better embodies the characteristics of "modern urban characteristics, Lingnan architectural style, strong cultural atmosphere and exemplary role of windows". Beijing Road has become the only way for citizens and tourists at home and abroad to shop and travel, and has become a beautiful business card in Guangzhou.