history
150 years ago, the colonists set foot on this strange land in Shanghai and took a fancy to this beach in Huangpu River. Therefore, this used to be a fiber road trodden by boatmen and coolies. After more than 100 years of construction, there are many high-rise buildings and traffic. These buildings with both classicism and modernism have become the symbol of Shanghai.
The Bund starts from Waibaidu Bridge in the north and ends at Jinling East Road in the south, with a total length of about 1.5km. It is adjacent to Huangpu River in the east and 52 buildings with different styles in the west. The essence of the Bund lies in these Bund buildings called "World Architecture Expo". The famous Bank of China Building, Peace Hotel, Customs Building and HSBC Building reproduce the style of "Far East Wall Street". Although these buildings are not from the same designer or built in the same period, their architectural colors are basically unified and the overall outline is surprisingly coordinated. No matter from afar or wandering around, you can feel a vigorous, vigorous and elegant momentum.
The Bund was originally a beach along the Yangtze River in the north of Shanghai City Hall. In the old society, it was usually called "Huangpu Beach". After the completion of the road, it was named Huangpu Road, and 1945 was renamed Zhongshan Dongyi Road.
After 1840, Shanghai, as one of the five major trading ports, began to open to the outside world.
Old scene of the Bund 1845 British colonists occupied the Bund and established the British Concession. 1849, French colonists also seized the Bund and established the French Concession. From then on to the early 1940s, the Bund was successively occupied by the British Concession and the French Concession, which were called "the Bund in the British Concession" and "the Bund in France" respectively. The Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession and the Public Bureau of the French Concession are their highest municipal institutions and leading organs respectively. Concession is like a sovereign area, and western powers manage it in their own way. When the concession was completed, the Bund became the earliest and most prosperous place in the concession. The early Bund was a foreign trade center, where foreign companies flourished and trade flourished. Since the late19th century, many foreign banks and Chinese banks have been established on the Bund, which has become Shanghai's "Financial Street", also known as "Oriental Wall Street". As a result, the Bund has become a "land of feng shui". Owning a piece of land on the Bund is not only a symbol of wealth, but also a symbol of reputation. After companies and financial enterprises occupied a place on the Bund, they began to build company buildings. Most of the buildings on the Bund have been rebuilt three times or more, and architects from all over the world have shown their talents here, so that more than 20 buildings of different periods, countries and styles are concentrated on the small Bund, so the Bund is also called the "World Architecture Expo". For more than 100 years, the Bund has been presented to the world as a symbol of Shanghai.
1843 After the opening of Shanghai, Buffel, the first British consul in Shanghai, took a fancy to the Bund. 1845, according to the so-called "Shanghai Land Charter" published by Shanghai Road Station, 800 mu of land including the Bund was designated as a British concession. 1849, France also classified 986 mu of land on the south side of the British concession as a French concession. However, it was not until the beginning of the last century, especially in the twenties and thirties, that the towering and uneven world architecture Expo group stood by the river. Since this period, it has gradually become the symbol of the largest economic center in the Far East. After a century of vicissitudes, the Bund, after a large-scale renovation project of 1992- 1993, has a new look and more charming scenery, and has been rated as the "favorite scenic spot" in Shanghai by Chinese and foreign tourists.