Hangzhou Historic Shops and Factories: Trade and Industry on the List

In brief

Hangzhou's 2013 regulations name workshops, shops, factories and warehouses that represent the history of industry as one of the grounds for listing a building. The list includes old-established shops of the Qing and Republican eras around Zhongshan Road and Hefang Street, the transfer firms of Xixing on the canal, and factories and warehouses built between the 1950s and the 1980s.

Old shops

The old commercial heart around Zhongshan Road and Hefang Street keeps a run of shop buildings: The Former Site of Zhuyangxin Plaster Store, a Qing timber building; Building Cluster at 57 through 59, Dajing Alley, the former Zhang Xiaoquan scissors shop; Shao Zhiyan Writing Brush Store; and Republican-era fronts such as The Former Site of Shengchang Department Store, The Former Site of Xianzhang Silk Store and The Former Site of Wuzhou Drugstore.

The transfer firms of Xixing

At Xixing, at the western end of the East Zhejiang Canal, firms called guotanghang moved goods and travellers between the canal and the Qiantang River from the Ming dynasty on. Shenwei Quan's Commercial Transfer Station, Yu Renyuan's Guotanghang and Ye Hanxiang's Commercial Transfer Station are among the survivors, now part of the Grand Canal World Heritage property.

Factories and warehouses

The fifth batch brought in the post-war economy: Architecture of Hangzhou Silk Printing and Dyeing United Factory, Architecture of Zhejiang Ramie Mill, Architectural Complex of Hangzhou Dahe Shipyard, Architectural complex of Xiaohe Oil Warehouse of Hangzhou Petroleum Company, Zhejiang and the canal warehouse Architecture of Qiaoxi Warehouse of Hangzhou Specialties Co, Ltd, now the China Knife, Scissors and Sword Museum. National Warehouse of Silk, built in 1951, was already in the first batch.

All 30 on the list

Sources

Hangzhou Memory groups the buildings by type from their names and descriptions; the city's lists do not classify them. Names and descriptions come from English Wikipedia's batch lists, and Chinese names, periods and addresses from 杭州市历史建筑 on Chinese Wikipedia, both CC BY-SA 4.0.