Brief introduction of Chongqing white elephant street

White elephant street is located in the southeast of Yuzhong District, Chongqing. The street is about 425m long and less than10m wide. 1886, the earliest cable telegraph office in Chongqing was established here. 189 1 After the opening of Chongqing, Britain, the United States and Japan opened foreign firms here, forming a "financial street". Because foreign businessmen are restricted to the south bank, they can't enter the city privately, but they have to do things, so there is a comprador. White elephant street is located in Taipingmen, close to the government, so it is used as the office headquarters by comprador and trading companies. So white elephant street has the earliest houses in Chongqing. These houses have absorbed some advantages of traditional architecture in China, such as lattice doors and windows, carved and hollowed out, which are quite exquisite.

White elephant street 15 is the former site of Chongqing Newspaper sponsored by Song Dynasty on 1897 and Xinshu Newspaper written on 1924. 1938, Lao She moved to Xinshu newspaper office in white elephant street. 1922, Chen Yi served as the editor-in-chief of Chongqing Xinshu newspaper, and took a group photo with his colleagues in front of the social networking site in white elephant street. Wang Yunsheng, the second editor-in-chief of Ta Kung Pao, lived in a small apartment in white elephant street after Ta Kung Pao moved to Chongqing in 1938. 194 1 after the southern Anhui incident, Zhou Enlai held a forum for patriotic business people in white elephant street.