Nanjing Road is in Huangpu District, Shanghai.
Nanjing Road (one of the top ten commercial centers in Shanghai) generally refers to Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, located in Huangpu District, Shanghai, from Xizang Middle Road in the west to Zhongshan Dongyi Road on the Bund in the east, a total length of 1,033 meters, the width of the road is 18-28 meters, the total land area of about 30,000 square meters, was completed on September 20, 1999 .
Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street adopts an asymmetrical layout, with a 4.2-meter-wide "Golden Belt" as the main line running through the entire pedestrian street, on which urban public **** facilities are centrally arranged, such as chairs, shopping kiosks, information kiosks, billboards, sculptural vignettes, street lamps, street lights, and other facilities.
Main Attractions
Yongan Department Store
Yongan Department Store opened on Nanjing Road in 1918, founded by the Kuo family (Kuo Lok and his brother Kuo Chuan), one of the earliest ethnic department stores in China, located at 635 Nanjing Road (southwest corner of Zhejiang Intersection). （In 1933, a new 22-story Yongan New Building was built at the sharp corner between Zhejiang Road and Hubei Road (No. 627 Nanjing Road).
Yongan Department Store is a typical representative of the eclectic architectural style in the early 20th century, and is one of the first batch of excellent modern protected buildings in Shanghai, designated as "Shanghai Cultural Relics Protection Unit". Yongan Department Store has a total area of about 32,000 square meters, divided into five floors, along the central top of Nanjing Road, there is a tower, named "Qiyunge", is the liberation of Shanghai, Nanjing Road, the first red flag raised place. 2004, the building to implement a comprehensive refurbishment, to restore the European classicism style of the original historical appearance.
Sincerity Building
The construction of the building was started in 1914, and the building was officially opened in October 1917, which was located at the intersection of Nanjing Road and Zhejiang Road, and was the first department store set up by the Chinese on Nanjing Road. The name of Sincere Building is taken from "Sincerity in the First Place" in the book of the Four Books "Zhongyong". Along the street, the Sincere Building is connected to the street by a riding-staircase coupon corridor with a rooftop garden and cafes on the rooftop, of which the rooftop garden is the first one in Shanghai for the Sincere Building. There is a three-story tower at the corner facade of Sincere Building, and its plane is reduced from the bottom to the top layer by layer and rounded from square to square, with the support of Taschikan-type columns. The exterior of the building has a prominent waistline in the Renaissance style, with local Baroque decorations.
Century Plaza
Century Plaza is located in the south of Nanjing Road, east of Hubei Road, north of Jiujiang Road, west of Fujian Road, with a land area of 8404 square meters. There is a stage in the middle of Century Plaza, which can hold large-scale activities such as performances and commodity display. Century Square has nearly 400 square meters of green space on the west side, west of the flower bed towers a 3.08-meter-high Oriental Treasure Tripod, the east side of the placement of a clock, which is to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Switzerland, the people of Switzerland presented to the people of Shanghai as a gift, and every time it comes to the right time, the clock will ring the bells of the melody of Chinese folk songs.
Shanghai Shimao Plaza
Shanghai Shimao Plaza is located at No. 819 Nanjing Road East, Huangpu District, Shanghai, at the west end of Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, overlooking the Huangpu River in the east, People's Square in the west, Yuyuan Garden in the south and Suzhou Creek in the north. Shanghai Shimao Plaza was designed by German IOKP Design Office in the early stage and modified by East China Architectural Design Institute in the later stage, the main building plan is an isosceles right triangle.
The above reference? Baidu Encyclopedia-Nanjing Road