During the Japanese invasion of China, Taikoocang Wharf was once an important transshipment base for Japanese materials and personnel invading China. 1947 65438+In February, the Guangdong Provincial National Government established the Guangdong Provincial People's Grain Planning Committee and the Guangdong Provincial Grain Managers Committee to use Guangzhou Yihe, Taikoo and Osaka warehouses to store grain. Later, due to the increase in grain coming to the city, the granary was not enough to store grain, and the warehouse of the rice machine in the city was borrowed to store grain. 1In August, 950, in order to keep the municipal relief grain and cooperate with the purchase of summer grain, the government leased two private warehouses, Taikoo Warehouse, Dasheng Warehouse, Rongxingtang Warehouse and Huangpu Avenue, to store grain. On February 24th 1953, Guangzhou Military Management Committee was ordered to requisition Taikoocang, and Taikoocang Wharf was nationalized, which was managed by Guangzhou Port Authority and Guangzhou Port Group successively.
During the period of 1968, in the historical wave of educated youth going to the countryside, Taikoocang Wharf became an important wharf for transporting educated youth from Guangzhou to Zhanjiang and Hainan to participate in the construction of southern Xinjiang. During the Cultural Revolution, Taikoocang suffered heavy losses. 1September, 967 1-3, a "fight" occurred in Taikoocang, which caused some warehouses to catch fire, resulting in 7 deaths and 10 injuries, among which warehouse No.8 on the third floor was burned down, resulting in huge property losses. On the 3rd, the Central Investigation Team personally went to Taikoocang for investigation. During the "Ten-year Catastrophe", Taikoo Cang was shelled, and a big hole was punched in one of the warehouses that mainly stored packaged sugar. Although it was repaired later, the packaged sugar stored in the repaired place was often susceptible to moisture, but this phenomenon was not found in other places and other warehouses. In 2005, it was designated as a cultural relic protection unit in Guangzhou.
Overview of Taikoocang Wharf Project Taikoocang Wharf Project covers an area of 7 1, 236. 1 m2 (of which the land area is about 52,500 m2), the wharf coastline is 31.2m, and the total planned construction area of the project is 39,599 m2.
Taikoocang Wharf was founded in Shanghai in 1867 by an Englishman, John Schwiya. It was originally named "Daji", which means "bon voyage", but Shi Huaiya didn't know Chinese, so he wrote it as "Taigu".
1865, British businessmen set up a joint venture in Hong Kong, and then set up a wharf in cheung chau island, Huangpu, Guangzhou (now within the scope of Huangpu Shipyard).
1867 build a special wharf and trestle near the old industrial and commercial bank of Guangzhou in Xihaokou. The wharf is made of cement structure and is 40.8 meters long. With the development of business, Swire Steamship Company has also built a special wharf along the Pearl River.
During the period of 1904, the British Swire Company began to build docks and warehouses on the east bank of the southern channel of the Pearl River and the south side of the White Swan Pond (formerly known as "White Fairy Shell"). After four years, Taikoocang Wharf was completed on 1908. Start to dock and load and unload goods along this 32 1 m wharf. 1928-1933, during Chen's reign in Guangdong, Taikoocang Wharf was rebuilt and expanded.
Taikoocang Wharf is an important historical relic of Guangzhou's modern foreign trade and port transportation. After nearly a hundred years of historical vicissitudes, it is also a historical witness of foreign capital entering Guangzhou port transportation and warehousing industry during the Republic of China. It is also a continuation of the history and culture of ancient Maritime Silk Road and modern foreign trade in China. After the Republic of China, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, it silently witnessed the social and historical changes and made due historical contributions to Guangzhou's economic and social development. Rich historical background provides an excellent theme for Taikoocang's cultural creativity, trade exhibition, sightseeing and entertainment.
After the reform and opening up, the cargo transportation of Guangzhou Port gradually moved eastward, Taikoocang gradually declined and had to face transformation. In 2007, Guangzhou Port Group reformed Taikoocang Wharf and its surrounding environment, and carried out appearance repair, internal structure reinforcement and internal function replacement in line with the principle of "repairing the old as the old". The existing seven well-preserved warehouses are divided into four functional areas, namely: wine display and trading center (1, No.2 warehouse), exhibition center (No.3 warehouse), fashion and creative design park and nostalgic cinema (No.6 and No.7 warehouse). The north and south ends of the dock are riverside green spaces, the south and east sides of the warehouse are planned to be open-air parking lots, and three T-shaped docks are transformed into cruise yacht docks.
Since 2009, Taikoocang Wharf has attracted the attention of the leaders of Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City, attracted the competing reports of various media, and attracted brands from various industries to carry out corporate image promotion and product display. Many luxury brands (such as luxury cars, jewelry, jewelry) and fashion brands choose Taikoocang Wharf to hold new product launches and VIP activities. On September 3rd, 2065438+00, Guangdong Province's "Three Old" Renovation Site Meeting, provincial and municipal leaders and delegates all recognized the achievements of Taikoocang Renovation Project, and set Taikoocang Renovation Project as a model for the "Three Old" Renovation in the whole province.