Xinjiekou District: Gulou District, Xuanwu District, Qinhuai District
Xinjiekou is located in the central area of Nanjing, with Xinjiekou Square (Sun Yat-sen's bronze statue) as the symbol, is China's famous commercial center, with a hundred years of history, is known as "China's first business district"? In 1929 (the 18th year of the Republic of China), the National Government started to build the capital Nanjing according to the Capital Plan, and Xinjiekou was first planned as a commercial area. Zhongshan Road thus bends east, Zhongshan East Road, Zhongzheng Road (now Zhongshan South Road), Hanzhong Road and Zhongshan Road, four boulevards more than 40 meters wide in this intersection, the middle of the formation of a ring-shaped Xinjiekou Square, and a bronze statue of Dr. Sun Yat-sen as a separator, became the transportation hub of Nanjing, convenient transportation to bring a lot of merchants and enterprises. [1]?
In the 1940s, Xinjiekou rapidly developed into an important commercial and financial center, many banks gathered here, constituting a banking district, making this place China's "Wall Street"; Fuchang Hotel, Dasanyuan, Tongqinglou, 369 restaurants, such as restaurants, wine and liquor. Central shopping malls, Li Shunchang clothing stores and other stores gathered; Central Daily News, Dynasty Newspaper, Xinmin Newspaper, Rotary Daily Newspaper and other influential newspapers, as well as the Dahua Grand Theater, Xindu Grand Theater, the World Theater, the Central Stage and other entertainment venues are also gathered here, Xinjiekou has become the core of the capital city of Nanjing. [2]?
As of 2016, the core area of Xinjiekou business district area of less than 0.3 square kilometers within the concentration of one hundred of the world's top 500 branches stationed, nearly 700 stores, more than 10,000 square meters of large and medium-sized commercial enterprises 30, more than 1,600 large and small businesses scattered, high school and low-grade comprehensive coverage, the degree of concentration of trade and commerce than Beijing Wangfujing, Shanghai Xujiahui and head of the China, the highest concentration of trade and commerce in China. It is the area with the highest concentration of commerce and trade in China, and the average daily passenger flow on holidays exceeds one million times. The turnover has long ranked first in China's commercial districts, is China's only one with four sales of more than 3 billion department store shopping centers in the business district, which Deji Plaza 2016 sales is as high as 7.66 billion in China's second only to Beijing SKP.