Why are there so many roads named after regions in Shanghai?

On May 5th, 1862, British Consul Maihuatuo issued a Memorandum on the Naming of Shanghai Roads. In 1865, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Concession officially stipulated that all the north-south trunk roads in the former British Concession should be named as China Province, and the east-west trunk roads should be named as major cities in China. From this, the north-south trunk roads we see on the map are Sichuan Road, Jiangxi Road, Henan Road, Shandong Road, Shanxi Road, Fujian Road, Hubei Road, Zhejiang Road, Guangxi Road, Yunnan Road and Tibet Road from east to west. However, there are exceptions, such as Guangdong Road, which should run from north to south but has become an east-west trend. The reason is that when the names were originally given in English, this road was changed to "CantanRoad", which can be understood as both "Guangdong Road" and "Guangzhou Road" in early Chinese-foreign exchanges. Originally named as "Guangzhou Road", China people translated it into "Guangdong Road". From north to south, there are Suzhou Road (now South Suzhou Road), Beijing Road, Ningbo Road, Tianjin Road, Nanjing Road (also called "Road" in English), Jiujiang Road, hankou road Road and Fuzhou Road.

In the early days of the founding of New China, in 195, the government only changed the names of a few roads, and still followed the standard of naming by established place names. With the continuous development of Shanghai, the urban area is expanding at an alarming rate. The demand for road names is more abundant, and the corresponding rules can only be based on a general principle. This principle is to use domestic place names as road names as far as possible, and the location of the named area in the whole country should be roughly equivalent to the location of this road in Shanghai, without affecting the original main roads. This is not only easy to find, but also a way to express the harmony of the whole country and the whole world.

The development after 199s suddenly made people discover that road names can be an intangible wealth. The person in charge of the Shanghai Geographical Names Office said that there was no Ningxia Road in Shanghai, and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region took the initiative to apply for naming, so famous brand enterprises and featured products such as Guangxia Group and Lycium barbarum in Ningxia naturally entered Ningxia Road, opening a breakthrough for the Shanghai market. At the request of kaiyuan city, Yunnan province, there is kaiyuan road again.