On Yide Road, there used to be the residence of the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi, which was used as the residence of the Qing government's frontier defense minister. It was shelled by the British and French allied forces in the Second Opium War, and then the French built the Sacred Heart Cathedral on the original site, which is now used to being called the Stone Chamber. It is the largest Gothic church in China and is said to be designed like Notre Dame. The largest professional street in Guangzhou was born on Yide Road, which was newly built after the wall was demolished. Until today, Yide Road's toys, dried fruits, seafood and handicrafts have an annual sales of 2.5 billion yuan, accounting for 71% of Guangzhou's sales.

The birth history of Yide Road is not long, which can be traced back to the Republic of China more than 81 years ago. Due to the expansion of the city and the demolition of the ancient city wall, a road was demolished from east to west, which is the predecessor of Yide Road today.

Yide Road is famous for its salted fish, seafood and dried fruits, and the sales of toys are also very large. Large professional markets such as Haizhongbao and Yiyuan are distributed along the street, and shops are endless on both sides of Yide Road. Foreign merchants who come here to buy goods shuttle to buy, and the sound of bargaining and loading and unloading goods shows the prosperity of the commercial street.

Yide Road has two signboards worth introducing. As a famous commercial street in Guangzhou, it sells 2.5 billion yuan of toys and dried seafood annually, accounting for the whole city of Guangzhou. The other is Sacred Heart Cathedral, a national key cultural relic protection unit on Yide Road.

In p>1565, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou built an outer city. Today Yide Road is the south wall of the new city. Among the eight gates of the new city, there are "Wuxianmen" and "Jinghaimen" in Yide Road today, and the Pearl River is just outside the city. The Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty is located in this area. In 1921, Guangzhou demolished the city wall, opened Yide Road and Jinghai Road, and built arcades as shops beside the newly opened roads.

In fact, as early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were professional streets in Guangzhou, where shops in the same industry gathered to operate. Since the Song Dynasty, there have been Rain Hat Street, Biandan Lane, Zhuhao Lane, Baimi Lane, Haiwei Street and Maxing Street, ivory jade articles on Daxin Road, silk cloth on Gaudi Street and Cantonese embroidery on Zhuangyuanfang, and the newly-built Yide Road has come to the fore.

At that time, in the area along Yanjiang West Road, the docks were contiguous, which was the main area of waterway passenger and freight transportation. Yide Road became the distribution center of vegetables, fruits, fish and non-staple food, so it was called "three columns" of vegetable column, fruit column and salted fish column.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the trade of salted fish, seafood, preserved fruit and non-staple food was developed from Shishi Road in the east to Haizhu Road in the west. There were more than 11 large and small markets adjacent to warehouses and warehouses. Coupled with vendors selling along the street, the wide Yide Road was extremely crowded. During the Japanese occupation of Guangzhou, the Japanese also opened Zhenyu Foreign Firm at No.315 Yide Road to sell oriental salted fish and seafood. In 1946, the salted fish business association in Guangzhou was even born in Yide Middle Road, which shows the important position of salted fish industry at that time. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yide Road salted fish stall was particularly prosperous, and it was the largest salted fish market in the province. At that time, Guangzhou people said that Yide Road had the most salted fish (dead people).