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Old Shenzhen layout and introduction

Said "before the reform and opening up of Shenzhen is a small fishing village" people are uneducated in the Yuan Dynasty Ming Dynasty, today's Shenzhen Luohu Dongmen Old Street, in fact, is not a street, but refers to the Shennan East Road to the north, south of the Lixin Road, the new Garden Road to the east, the east of the East Gate Road, west of 1.76 million square meters within the scope of the 17 streets and all commercial facilities! of these ranges. The history of the old streets can be traced back to the middle of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, there were successive Hakka villages such as Chik Kan Tsuen (now Cai Ya Wei), Lo Wu Tsuen, Kwai Tong Tsuen (now Shui Bei Tsuen), Hu Bei Tsuen, Xiang Xi Tsuen, Huang Bei Ling Tsuen and Nantang Tsuen, etc. in the area of Luohu, and due to the need, the clansmen of several villages built bazaars in the vicinity of villages, and according to the custom, people set up stalls and set up points on the edge of the farmland between Nantang Tsuen and Yip Yiu Tsuen, which was close to the middle of these villages, and slowly formed a small Market - "market", since into the "market", there must be a name, right, because at that time the market west of the ditch is deeper, so, people called this place for the "Shenzhen Market". Shenzhen, Hakka is "the ditch between the fields", "Shenzhen" is a deep ditch. "Shenzhen" this ditch, is the people at that time and the surrounding other ditches compared to the deeper that comes, this is "Shenzhen" produced an important geographic and human characteristics. At that time, the deep ditch slowly became the Shenzhen River, which is also known as the Qingshui River today. And today's Shenzhen River, in the past, because of the origin from Wutong Mountain to come, called Wutong River. "Shenzhen Market", the earliest by the people sewing street, on the main street, duck street, the street and so on a few market composition, the beginning of a small town scale. Since the late Ming Dynasty, the old street has been a famous commercial market for dozens of miles around. Now the name "Shenzhen" comes from the Hakka market "Shenzhen Market", the name of Shenzhen Market comes from the "Shenzhen River" outside the west gate. Since the first year of the Qing Dynasty to three (1662 ~ 1664), the Qing court implemented the policy of "relocation of the sea", moving again and again, the beginning of the relocation of 30 miles, and later was 50 miles. Shenzhen market also with the implementation of the order to move the sea and silence. But move the sea policy caused a huge economic depression, the population of Xin'an County plummeted, and finally even Xin'an County was removed. In view of this situation, in the eighth year of the Kangxi period (1669), Kangxi granted special permission to carry out border restoration in Xin'an. The original residents and a large number of people from Jiaying, Chaozhou, Fujian and Jiangxi began to move in. Shenzhen Market began to gradually recover. The three words "Shenzhen Market" first appeared in the Qing Dynasty Kangxi 27 years (1688) by the county magistrate Jin Wenmu signed the compilation of "Xin'an County Record".

In 1911, the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway was completed and opened to traffic, Luohu Station opened, Shenzhen has become the transportation gateway between the mainland and Hong Kong, selling agricultural products on Guxing Street (today's Jiefang Road), selling snacks and groceries on Weixin Road (today's People's North Road), Yongxin Street, Nanking Street and other places in the commercial streets developed rapidly, forming today's Luohu Old Town. After the establishment of the Special Administrative Region of Shenzhen, the old street became the earliest commercial center as a matter of course, guiding and shaping the consumer trend in Shenzhen for a long time. Through the stores, the bustling traffic, the colorful traditional commodities and the winding alleys, you can see the distinctive Lingnan characteristics of the residential buildings, the Riding House, temples, academies, ancestral halls, ancient bells, stone paths and ancient trees with a hundred years of life.

Qing Jiaqing Daoguang years, Shenzhen area has Pinghu market, Shenzhen market, Wangmu market and so on 36 market, each market every 3 days a market day, the neighboring market market day staggered each other. Shenzhen market "market day" is on the second, fifth and eighth of the lunar calendar. Shenzhen Market became an important material distribution center at that time. After the Opium War, British colonialists gradually occupied Hong Kong. Since the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu (AD 1898), the British invaders and the Qing government signed the "Sino-British development of Hong Kong's boundaries of the special article", the British obtained the "New Territories" lease, the boundary of Hong Kong from the north of Kowloon boundary street to the south bank of the Shenzhen River, Shenzhen market has a greater contact with the outside world! --This objectively stimulated the rise of Shenzhen market fish port, salt port and silk (silk fabric) port and other trading places.

October 1, 1910, the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway from Kowloon Tsim Sha Tsui to Shenzhen Luohu Bridge section opened to traffic. Since then, businessmen and merchants have been traveling more frequently, which has pushed the Sino-foreign trade one step forward. At that time, the market in shenzhen hotel, fish store, cake store and rice store, butcher store, grocery store and teahouse restaurants and other service industries emerged in large numbers. Every "market day". Agriculture, industry, business and other people from all walks of life are gathered in the Upper Main Street, Duck Lane and oil press head and other places to trade agricultural and sideline products, the scene is very lively. Located in the British colony of Hong Kong and the Qing dynasty on the border of the demarcation line of the Shenzhen market, the location has become very important up, resulting in a huge commercial requirements, the late Qing dynasty Shenzhen market has a number of business houses.

August 14, 1911, after the opening of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, Hong Kong and Shenzhen region goods in and out of great convenience, pulling the economic and social development of the Shenzhen region. Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway in Luohu Bridge on both sides of the Yinghua boundary are equipped with a railway station. According to the early years of the Republic of China under the jurisdiction of Bao'an County, Guangdong Province, the sea Road Road Yin Wang Dianzhang's diary records: Shenzhen market is Bao'an County, the most prosperous area of goods. Merchants organized a chamber of commerce, the market within the store 240, from Shenzhen to Hong Kong for agricultural and sideline products, "to the best oyster sauce, oil, sugar, peanuts, pineapple, pineapple, radish, lychee, but also the bulk of the output of the cloud". From Hong Kong to buy back textiles, daily necessities, chemical products and other materials, and then transported and sold to various places.

Preserved in the Hong Kong Historical Archives, an old photo of the 1920s, you can see that the Shenzhen market has already had a certain scale.

By this time, Shenzhen Market had developed into the largest market town in the central and eastern parts of Baoan County. And because the Shenzhen market is Hong Kong to Guangzhou, Huizhou and other towns of the "transit station", so many business travelers like to stop and linger here, there is no lack of "adventurers" in this place to make a fortune, built in Luohu railway station next to the company's Dali "

Now we talk about the East Gate, but no one has ever seen the real East Gate. Zhang Yibing early nineties of the last century, but also specifically to Hong Kong's lower village market to investigate a number of lower village market than the Shenzhen market is much smaller, but there is indeed a door, in the past to the night, but also to close the door, in order to prevent theft.

Shenzhen market, "a hundred years old - Dongshengyuan" owner Liang Baihe old man also recalled that, before liberation, Shenzhen market does have a door, the night also have to close. The east gate was located at the intersection of today's Jiefang Road and Dongmenzhong Road, the west gate was roughly 100 meters east of the intersection of today's Jiefang Road and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway, the south gate was on today's Shennan Avenue, and the north gate was in the swamp south of today's Shenzhen Middle School and Finance and Economics School.

There were very few stores around the west gate, the north gate was a wasteland, and there was a market in Nantang around the south gate. Because the commerce around the east gate was the most developed, such as Guxing Street, Shangdajie Street, and Dongxin Street, people later said, "Go to the east gate to buy something," and that's how the east gate got its name.

Old Dongmen "is a typical place of architectural diversity"

Shenzhen market buildings are mostly built in the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, although the houses are low, the streets are narrow, but the categories are complete.

In 1953, because Shenzhen Town was connected to the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, the transportation was convenient, the population gathered more, and commerce and industry were more prosperous, the Baoan County Government moved from Nantou to Shenzhen Market. The county government is in the area of Jiao Lake Road, which is a swampy area northwest of the old Dongmen Street. The old building of the county government was used as the office building of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Administrative Committee after 1979, and then later the old building was demolished and the Welcome Hotel was built.

The old story of Dongmen

In the summer of 1912, a group of Japanese spies entered Shenzhen Market from the "New Territories" through the Luohu Bridge as ordinary people, and stayed in a hotel there for one night. They wrote in their travelogue that Shenzhen was very hot and the mosquitoes were big and numerous.

In 1925, the Guangdong national government twice east to conquer the Guangdong warlord Chen Jiongming, Yang Ximin, Liu Zhenhuan, due to the important geographic location, the Shenzhen area of the Pinghu market and the Shenzhen market is the two armies must fight the military town.

In June 1925, Hong Kong workers held a general strike. in the early morning of the 19th, Hong Kong tramway workers traveled to Shenzhen by train or on foot respectively. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) sent staff to set up a reception station for Hong Kong workers on strike at the Siyue Academy (Zhang's ancestral hall and private school) at No. 22, Nanqing Street, Shenzhen Market, to entertain the workers coming from Hong Kong. More than 1,000 striking workers returned to Guangzhou by train from Shenzhen every day.

In 1927, the Baoan County Committee of the C*** led a peasant movement that at one time occupied the Shenzhen market.

In 1931, Shenzhen Town was established under Baoan County. In the Republic of China, the semi-colonial color of Shenzhen Market was very strong. In the 1920s and 1930s, the brother and concubine of the Guangdong warlord Chen Jitang opened a large casino near the Luohu Railway Station and five smaller casinos in Shenzhen Market. The casinos were full of food, drink, whoring and gambling. In addition to dice and Pai Gow, there were also roulette wheels, which were rare in China at that time. The casinos also stipulated that anyone who bought more than 1,000 yuan of chips could enjoy the luxury life provided by the casinos for free. After losing money, the casino can also send home travel expenses, and "welcome to the next visit".

In December 1938, Japanese invasion forces landed from Daya Bay. In order to fight against the Japanese invasion, Ye Ting led the Dongjiang guerrillas to use the Hongan Hotel on Nanqing Street as a guerrilla headquarters, with the headquarters above and the political department below, but it only operated for seven days before it had to be withdrawn from the overall situation. Later on, Hong An Hotel often received patriots and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and was comparable to the teahouse of "Mrs. Ah Hing". The owner of the hotel, He Huayi, who was known as "Hongan's wife," also became Shenzhen's "Sister Ah Qing.

After the Japanese invaded Shenzhen in 1942, the Japanese army's Gangtian unit set up its headquarters here. After the liberation, Hongan Hotel served as the meeting place of Bao'an County Post and Telecommunications Bureau and Post and Telecommunications Labor Union. Liang Baihe, Chen Minxue and several other elderly people clearly remember that many people rushed to the Shenzhen market in those days because they did not face the Japanese troops to make a ninety-degree bow, after being hit on the ground by two slaps of the Japanese troops, their chests were then stomped on, and they were even brutally beaten to death in the streets.

In 1940, Shenzhen Market had a telegraph office. The Christian Shenzhen Church, now located in Upper Meilin, Futian District, was originally located in Shenzhen Market (the site is west of the present-day Xin'an Restaurant) and was founded by the German Rheinlander Guild in 1896, before it was burned down by Japanese invading forces in World War II.

From the 1930s, Shenzhen market town has been coiled with the Kuomintang General Brigade in Shenzhen, the Kuomintang county government in Shenzhen police brigade, tax police regiment, the United Defense Brigade, the road guard brigade, as well as the Liang Ji Group, Xiao Tianan brigade and other soldiers and bandits; the late 30s to the early 40s, the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders in China and brutally trampled on the old East Gate of this piece of land ... ...

On October 19, 1949, Shenzhen Town was peacefully liberated, and Liu Ruchen, the director of the Baoshen Military Commission, led the People's Liberation Army stationed in Buji to move into Shenzhen Market by train.

In 1953, Bao'an county party committee and county government organs moved from Nantou to Shenzhen town, the old east gate then became the center of political, economic and cultural exchange activities for the whole county people. Shenzhen Theater, Xin'an Restaurant and Bao'an Bus Station and a number of sizeable buildings also rose in the 1950s and 1960s. [ This post was last edited by Pearl River East on 2010-3-9 11:29 Edit ] <h2> said "reform and opening up before Shenzhen is a small fishing village" people are not cultured </h2> in the Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, today's Shenzhen Luohu East Gate old street, in fact, is not a street, but refers to the Shennan! East Road to the north, Lixin Road to the south, Xinyuan Road to the east, Dongmen Middle Road to the west of 1.76 million square meters within the scope of the 17 streets and all commercial facilities of these ranges. The history of the old streets can be traced back to the middle of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the Luohu area appeared one after another Chik Kan Village (now Cai Ya Wei), Luohu Village, Gap Tong Village (now Shui Bei Village), Hu Bei Village, Xiang Xi Village, Huang Bei Ling Village and Nantang Village and other Hakka villages, due to the need for several villages of clansmen in the villages between the bazaar, according to the custom, the people of these villages close to the middle of the location of the Nantang Village and the Ye Ya Village between the edge of the farmland, stalls, and slowly formed a small Market - "market", since into the "market", there must be a name, right, because at that time the market west of the ditch is deeper, so, people called this place for the "Shenzhen Market". Shenzhen, Hakka is "the ditch between the fields", "Shenzhen" is a deep ditch. "Shenzhen" this ditch, is the people at that time and the surrounding other ditches compared to the deeper that comes, this is "Shenzhen" produced important geographic and human characteristics. At that time, the deep ditch slowly became the Shenzhen River, which is also known as the Qingshui River today. And today's Shenzhen River, in the past, because of the origin from Wutong Mountain to come, called Wutong River. "Shenzhen Market", the earliest by the people sewing street, on the main street, duck street, the street and so on a few market composition, the beginning of a small town scale. Since the late Ming Dynasty, the old street has been a famous commercial market for dozens of miles around. Now the name "Shenzhen" comes from the Hakka market "Shenzhen Market", the name of Shenzhen Market comes from the "Shenzhen River" outside the west gate. Since the first year of the Qing Dynasty to three (1662 ~ 1664), the Qing court implemented the policy of "relocation of the sea", moving again and again, the beginning of the relocation of 30 miles, and later was 50 miles. Shenzhen market also with the implementation of the order to move the sea and silence. But move the sea policy caused a huge economic depression, the population of Xin'an County plummeted, and finally even Xin'an County was removed. In view of this situation, in the eighth year of the Kangxi period (1669), Kangxi granted special permission to carry out border restoration in Xin'an. The original residents and a large number of people from Jiaying, Chaozhou, Fujian and Jiangxi began to move in. Shenzhen Market began to gradually recover. The three words "Shenzhen Market" first appeared in the Qing Dynasty Kangxi 27 years (1688) by the county magistrate Jin Wenmu signed the compilation of the "Xin'an County Record". <br /> 1911, the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway was completed and opened to traffic, Luohu Station opened, Shenzhen has become the transportation gateway between the mainland and Hong Kong, selling agricultural products on Guxing Street (today's Jiefang Road), selling snacks and groceries on Weixin Road (today's People's North Road), Yongxin Street, Nanking Street and other places in the commercial streets developed rapidly, forming today's Luohu Old Town. After the establishment of the Special Administrative Region of Shenzhen, the old streets became the earliest commercial centers as a matter of course, guiding and shaping the consumer trend in Shenzhen for a long time. Through the stores standing in order, the bustling flow of customers, the street full of traditional commodities and winding deep alleys, can be seen with distinctive Lingnan characteristics of the residential buildings, mounted buildings, temples, academies, ancestral halls, ancient bells, stone road and a hundred years of life of the old trees. <br /> Qing Jiaqing Daoguang years, Shenzhen area has Pinghu market, Shenzhen market, Wangmu market and so on 36 market, each market every 3 days a market day, the neighboring market market day staggered each other. Shenzhen market "market day" is on the second, fifth and eighth of the lunar calendar. Shenzhen Market became an important material distribution center at that time. After the Opium War, British colonialists gradually occupied Hong Kong. Since the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu (AD 1898), the British invaders and the Qing government signed the "Sino-British development of Hong Kong's boundaries of the special article", the British obtained the "New Territories" lease, the boundary of Hong Kong from the north of Kowloon boundary street to the south bank of the Shenzhen River, Shenzhen market has a greater contact with the outside world! --This has objectively stimulated the rise of fish port, salt port and silk (silk fabric) port and other trading places in Shenzhen market. <br /> October 1, 1910, the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway from Kowloon Tsim Sha Tsui to Shenzhen Luohu Bridge section opened to traffic. Since then, businessmen and merchants have become more frequent, and has pushed the Sino-foreign trade a step forward. At that time, the market in shenzhen hotel, fish store, cake store and rice store, butcher store, grocery store and teahouse restaurants and other service industries emerged in large numbers. Every "market day". Agriculture, industry, business and other people from all walks of life are gathered in the Upper Main Street, Auk Tsai Lane and oil press head and other places to trade agricultural and sideline products, the scene is very lively. Located in the British colony of Hong Kong and the Qing dynasty on the border of the demarcation line of the Shenzhen market, the location has become very important up, resulting in a huge business requirements, the late Qing dynasty Shenzhen market has a number of companies. <br /> August 14, 1911, after the opening of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, Hong Kong and Shenzhen region goods in and out of great convenience, pulling the economic and social development of the Shenzhen region. Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway in Luohu Bridge on both sides of the Yinghua boundary are equipped with a train station. According to the early years of the Republic of China under the jurisdiction of Bao'an County, Guangdong Province, the sea Road Road Yin Wang Dianzhang's diary records: Shenzhen market is Bao'an County, the most prosperous area of goods. Merchants organized between the Chamber of Commerce, the market within the store 240, from Shenzhen to Hong Kong for agricultural and sideline products, "to the best oyster sauce, oil, sugar, peanuts, pineapple, pineapple, radish, lychee, but also the bulk of the output of the cloud". Purchased from Hong Kong textiles, daily necessities, chemical products and other materials, and then transported and sold to various places. <br /> Retained in the Hong Kong Historical Archives of the twenties on an old photo, you can see that the Shenzhen market has had a certain scale. <br /> At this time, Shenzhen Market had developed into the largest market town in the central and eastern parts of Baoan County. And because the Shenzhen market is Hong Kong to Guangzhou, Huizhou and other towns of the "transit station", so many business travelers like to stop and linger here, which there is no lack of "adventurers" in this place to make a fortune, built in the Luohu Railway Station, next to the company's Dali The "big stall" (casino) in the Shenzhen market opened five branches, <br /> East Gate does have "door" <br /> Now we say East Gate, but we have not seen the real "East Gate" of "East Gate". East Gate" of the "door" where. Zhang Yibing early nineties of the last century, but also specifically to Hong Kong's lower village market to investigate a number of lower village market than the Shenzhen market is much smaller, but there is indeed a door, in the past to the night, but also to close the door, in order to prevent theft. <br /> shenzhen market "a hundred years old - east source" of the owner of the old man leung pak hop also recalled that before liberation, shenzhen market does have a door, the night also have to close the. The location of the east gate is at the intersection of today's Jiefang Road and Dongmenzhong Road, the location of the west gate is roughly 100 meters east of today's intersection of Jiefang Road and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway, the south gate is at today's Shennan Boulevard, and the north gate is at today's Shenzhen Middle School and the swamp south of the Finance and Economics School. <br /> West Gate area has few stores, North Gate area is a wasteland, South Gate area has a Nantang market, because the East Gate area of the Valley Street, the upper street, Dongxin Street and other businesses are the most developed, so later people say "go to the East Gate to buy something," the East Gate is called so. <br /> Old East Gate "is a typical place of architectural diversity" <br /> Shenzhen Market buildings are mostly built in the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, although the houses are low, the streets are narrow, but the categories are complete. <br /> 1953, because Shenzhen town connected to the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, transportation is convenient, the population gathered more, more prosperous industry and commerce, Bao'an County Government from the Nantou moved to Shenzhen market. The county government is in the area of jiaohu road, which is a swampy area northwest of the old street of east gate. The old building of the county government was used as the office building of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Administrative Committee after 1979, and then later the old building was demolished and the Welcome Hotel was built. <br /> The Old Story of Dongmen<br /> In the summer of 1912, a group of Japanese spies entered Shenzhen Market from the "New Territories" through the Luohu Bridge as ordinary people, and stayed in a hotel in Shenzhen Market for one night. They wrote in their travelogue that it was very hot in Shenzhen and the mosquitoes were very big and numerous. <br /> In 1925, the National Government of Guangdong Province twice conquered the Guangdong warlords Chen Jiongming, Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan, and due to the important geographic location, Pinghu Market and Shenzhen Market in Shenzhen area were the military towns that the two armies had to fight for. <br /> In June 1925, Hong Kong workers held a general strike. in the early morning of the 19th, Hong Kong tramway workers traveled to Shenzhen by train or on foot respectively. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) sent its staff to set up a reception station for Hong Kong strike workers at the Siyue Academy (i.e. Zhang's ancestral hall and private school) at No. 22 Nanqing Street, Shenzhen Market, to entertain the workers coming from Hong Kong. More than 1,000 striking workers returned to Guangzhou by train from Shenzhen every day. <br /> In 1927, the Bao'an County Committee of the C*** led the peasant movement and occupied the Shenzhen market for a time. <br /> In 1931, Shenzhen Town was established under Baoan County. In the Republic of China, the semi-colonial color of Shenzhen Market was very strong. In the twenties and thirties, the brother and concubine of the Guangdong warlord Chen Jitang opened a large casino near the Luohu Railway Station and five small casinos in Shenzhen Market. The casinos were full of food, drink, whoring and gambling. In addition to dice and Pai Gow, there were also roulette wheels, which were rare in China at that time. The casinos also stipulated that anyone who bought more than 1,000 yuan of chips could enjoy the luxury life provided by the casinos for free. After losing money, the casino can also send home travel expenses, and "welcome to the next visit". <br /> In December 1938, Japanese invasion forces landed from Daya Bay. In order to fight against the Japanese invasion, Ye Ting led the Dongjiang guerrillas to use the Hongan Hotel on Nanqing Street as a guerrilla command headquarters, with the command headquarters above and the political department below, but it only operated for 7 days before it had to be withdrawn from the overall situation. Later on, Hong An Hotel often received patriots and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and was comparable to the teahouse of "Mrs. Ah Hing". He Huayi, the owner of the hotel, who was known as "Hongan's wife", also became the "Sister Ah Qing" of Shenzhen. <br /> After the Japanese invaded Shenzhen in 1942, the Japanese Gangtian Army set up their headquarters here. After the liberation, Hongan Hotel was used as the meeting place of Baoan Post and Telecommunications Bureau and Post and Telecommunications Labor Union. Liang Baihe, Chen Minxue and several other elderly people clearly remember that many people rushed to the Shenzhen market in those years because they did not face the Japanese army to make a ninety-degree bow, by the Japanese army two slaps on the ground after the chest and then stepped on the foot, and even brutalized to death in the street. <br /> In 1940, Shenzhen Market had a telegraph office. The Christian Church of Shenzhen, now located in Upper Meilin, Futian District, was originally located in Shenzhen Market (the site is on the west side of the present-day Xin'an Restaurant), founded by the German Rheinland Guild in 1896, and burned down by Japanese invading forces in World War II. <br /> From the 1930s onwards, Shenzhen market town has been encamped with the Nationalist General Brigade in Shenzhen, the Nationalist County Government Police Brigade in Shenzhen, the Tax Police Corps, the United Defense Brigade, the Road Guard Brigade, as well as the Liangji Tuan, Xiaotianan Brigade and other soldiers and bandits; from the late '30s to the early '40s, the hooves of the Japanese invaders in China brutally trampled on the land of the old East Gate... ...<br /> On October 19, 1949, Shenzhen Town was peacefully liberated, and Liu Ruchen, the director of the Baoshen Military Management Committee, led the People's Liberation Army stationed at Buji, and took a train into Shenzhen Market. <br /> 1953, Bao'an county party committee and county government organs moved from Nantou to Shenzhen town, the old east gate then became the center of political, economic and cultural exchange activities of the people of the county. Shenzhen Theater, Xin'an Restaurant and Bao'an Bus Station and a number of sizeable buildings have also risen in the 1950s and 1960s.