Beijing Road Commercial Walking Street Attractions Introduction:
Beijing Road is located in the center of Guangzhou City, is the location of the beginning of the construction of the city of Guangzhou, but also the most prosperous commercial gold treasure of the Guangzhou area ever.
Beijing Road commercial pedestrian street implementation of full-time walking through three stages: February 8, 1997, approved by the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government, Beijing Road part of the implementation of quasi-pedestrian on double holidays; May 1, 1998 to November 2001, the pedestrian street on holidays implementation of the full walk; January 1, 2002 onwards, the pedestrian street officially implemented full-time walking.
Beijing Road Pedestrian Street starts from Zhongshan 5th Road in the north and ends at Huifu Road in the south, with a total length of 440 meters and 138 stores along the street, which are mainly engaged in the business of clothing, department stores, footwear, restaurants and jewelry. Clothing stores account for 34%; department stores account for 17%; leather footwear account for 15%; catering account for 14%; jewelry account for 11%; culture 5%; medicine and health care account for 3%; services account for 1%. The leading commercial enterprise of Guangzhou City, Guangbai, is located on the pedestrian street. The construction and development of Beijing Road Pedestrian Street has played a positive role in the prosperity of Guangzhou's commercial tourism market and consolidation of the status of the commercial center of Guangzhou's old city. Beijing Road Pedestrian Street has been awarded "National Civilized Commercial Street Demonstration Point" issued by the Propaganda Department of the Central Government of China; "Advanced Unit for Creating China's Excellent Tourist City in Guangzhou" issued by the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government of China; "Demonstration Point for Creating National Spiritual Civilization" issued by the Office of the Central Spiritual Civilization Construction Steering Committee; "Street of 100 Cities and 10,000 Shops without Counterfeit Goods and Street of Satisfaction for Fake and Rights Protection" issued by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce; "Street of Satisfaction for Fake and Rights Protection" issued by Guangzhou Municipal Price Bureau; and "Street of Satisfaction for Fake and Rights Protection" issued by Guangzhou Price Bureau. The "Street of Satisfaction" issued by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce; the "Price and Measurement Trustworthy" unit issued by the Guangzhou Municipal Price Bureau and the Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision, and other honorable titles.
According to the statistics, the daily average of pedestrian flow on Beijing Road Pedestrian Street is 250,000 times during holidays, and during the National Day Golden Week in 2002, the pedestrian flow was even higher than 300,000 times, with the density of pedestrian flow exceeding that of Nanjing Road in Shanghai and Wangfujing in Beijing, which has now become the best place for citizens and tourists to go to for shopping, recreation and entertainment.
As the busiest pedestrian street in Guangzhou, Beijing Road not only has famous international fast-food chains such as McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut, but also has many famous Chinese and Western gourmet stores and old stores, such as Murray Kwon Ice House, Chow Sang Kee, Jubilee Seafood Restaurant, Taiping Pavilion Western Restaurant, Natural Door Indian Restaurant, Chicago Beefsteak House, Rheinland Café and so on.
For accommodation, the three-star Lido Hotel is located at the southern end of Pedestrian Street and **** has 350 rooms decorated in Chinese style. The hotel has a Cantonese cuisine, the essence of the Oriental food culture of the Dunhuang restaurant, attached to the Western restaurant cafes, business centers, various types of meeting rooms and other ancillary services. At the north end of Pedestrian Street, there is the four-star Guangzhou Mansion. The building is 38-storey high, with a construction area of 60,000 square meters, and stands tall with the flower of Guangzhou City, Cotton Tree, as its fa?ade shape. The building has 453 rooms of various types and more than 100 sets of office rooms, which are well equipped and comfortable. It has a modern business center, various kinds of recreation and fitness venues, banquet halls that can accommodate more than 400 people and restaurants with different characteristics, as well as Yungwonfang Food Street that gathers various kinds of folk snacks.
Beijing Road is located in the center of Guangzhou, with very convenient transportation. It is located at the intersection of Guangzhou Metro Lines 1 and 2, and the Metro Parkqian Station near the Guangzhou Department Store is the largest metro station in Southeast Asia. Moreover, convenient bus routes connect to all parts of the city. In addition, three large parking lots are set up at the Guangzhou Department Store Plaza, a foreign-invested street at the northeast end of Beijing Road and the Guangzhou Mansion, while there are five other temporary parking lots in the surrounding areas.
Beijing Road not only has a strong commercial atmosphere, but also has accumulated a strong cultural heritage. Here, six cultural relics with a history of more than 1,000 years are brought together. They are the ruins of the thousand-year old road on Beijing Road, the ruins of the thousand-year old building, the ruins of the Imperial Court of South Vietnam, the ruins of the Western Han sluice gate, the ruins of the shipbuilding workshop of the Qin Dynasty and the thousand-year old temple of Dafosi. Among them, the remains of the ancient road were discovered in the summer of 2002. Excavated and verified by the Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the ancient road began in the Tang Dynasty and lasted until the Republic of China. Street pavement layers stacked 11 layers: the 11th layer of gravel road is about 3 meters deep from today's surface, and the 10th, 9 two layers of paved brick road belongs to the Tang Dynasty; the 8th, 7 two layers of paved brick road for the Fifth South Han Guo years: 6, 5, 4 layers belong to the Song Dynasty; 3rd layer of the Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty; 2nd layer of slate road belongs to the Ming Dynasty. Downwards there is the silt mud of Han and Tang dynasties, to a depth of 4.5 meters found to have the remains of the period of South Vietnam, downwards for the silt layer, until 7.9 meters deep to see the gray-red raw soil, indicating that this was once a lot of river surges. According to historical records, the present Beijing Road has been the central axis of Guangzhou City since the Sui and Tang dynasties. At the same time, the remains of a thousand-year-old building were also found in Beijing Road Pedestrian Street.
The Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated and proved that the place is the site of gatehouse layered with three historical periods of Qing, Ming and Song. Its remains are the foundation of the Qing Dynasty bedding layer with wooden piles of postholes; Ming Dynasty, the doorway of the west doorway paving stone pavement and holding drum stone, etc.: Song Dynasty, the doorway of the west doorway brick paving pavement and stone threshold, etc.. Song gatehouse has been built three times, the north-south span is expanded one by one, in turn, 9 meters, 12 meters, 22 meters. The place from the surface of the deep about bucket; 8 meters has seen the raw soil of the hillock, indicating that this was once a hillock lot. According to Panyu County Records, there was a Qinghai Building on the present Beijing Road in Tang Dynasty, and double queues were built here by stacking stones in Southern Han Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, it was changed into a double-gated city building. Yuan Dynasty was destroyed. Ming Hongwu seven years (1374) rebuilt. Rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, called Gongbei Building. Republic of eight years (1919) demolition of the city to open the road, Gongbei building so flat.
In this less than 0.38 square kilometers of commercial area, not only has the Guangzhou Department Store, the new Daxin Department Store, Lai's Department Store and other commercial leaders, but also Pierre Cardin, Fort Sharon, Giordano, Baitu, Dolianu, Cavern Lane, Cochunde, Lairdstein, Nike, Adidas, Apple and other Hong Kong and even the world's most famous brands of chain stores more than 100. And there are also large commercial buildings such as Guangming Plaza and Mingsheng Plaza which will be opened soon.
Additionally, the Guangzhou Youth Cultural Palace, which is the center of out-of-school activities for young people in Guangzhou, is also located on Beijing Road. Founded in 1951, the Palace of Youth Culture is the cradle of growth and success for young people in Guangzhou. At present, the Youth Cultural Palace has set up a youth art training school, established a sports training center and youth network workstation, set up a dance room, multi-functional room, music room, instrumental music room, painting and calligraphy art room, table tennis club, chess room and martial arts training hall, etc., and opened a number of cultural art, sports training programs, such as the piano, violin, electronic piano, music quality, sight singing, dance, gymnastics, martial arts, taekwondo and so on. , sports training programs. Moreover, the Youth Fashion Culture Square and Youth Community Culture Square, which are under construction, will inject new elements into this youth out-of-school activity position with a history of more than 50 years. By then, it will become a movie city with movie as the theme, integrating fashion, leisure and entertainment activities; at the same time, it will establish clubs for reading, multimedia computers, scientific inventions, recreational and sports activities that are beneficial to the physical and mental health of young people, and carry out healthy and fashionable community culture and plaza culture activities, providing young people with places and stages for culture, art, sports training and quality education, as well as psychological counseling, legal aid and other community services.
In 2002, in the fourth phase of the Beijing Road improvement project, the People's Government of Yuexiu District invested more than 10 million yuan to resurface the pedestrian street and the pavement of East Xihu Road and Yushan Road, add direct drinking fountains, resting chairs, as well as public **** facilities such as signage and other public **** facilities, open up leisure plazas, set up green vignettes, sculptures, background music, and the installation of monitoring systems, so that the grade and taste of the pedestrian street of Beijing Road The grade and flavor of the pedestrian street is further upgraded. After the renovation in recent years, Beijing Road better reflects the characteristics of "modern urban characteristics, Lingnan architectural style, a strong cultural atmosphere, window demonstration role". Beijing Road has become a must-see place for citizens, domestic and foreign tourists to shop and travel, and a beautiful business card of Guangzhou.