The Central Street of Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province starts from the building red line on the west side of the section from Youyi Road to Jingwei Street in the east, ends at the building red line on the east side of the section from Youyi Road to Jingwei Street at Tongjiang Street in the west, and starts from Shangzhi Street to Tongjiang Street in the south. The building red line on the north side of the road section, the building red line area on the south side of the section from Shangzhi Street to Tongjiang Street in the north and the Flood Control Memorial Tower Square area.
Central Street, formerly known as China Street, is where Harbin’s Western style is located. The formation of this street dates back to 1898. At that time, Harbin began large-scale railway construction and urban construction. The original area along the river was an ancient river channel, which was full of desolate and low-lying meadows. The carriages transporting railway equipment dug a dirt track in the mud, so the China Eastern Railway Engineering Bureau uprooted the wasteland along the river. For the Chinese scattered in Harbin, by 1900, "China Street" was formed, which means the street where Chinese people live.
Central Street is the epitome of Harbin. Harbin's unique architectural culture and the European-style life of Harbin people are clearly reflected here, and it is known as "Asia's No. 1 Street".
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Central Street is the country’s first open, public welfare architectural art museum, known as the “Century Building Collection” The Central Street Architectural Art Museum, whose style embodies the essence of world art, covers a total area of ??94.05 hectares, approximately 1 square kilometer. The protected buildings, historical buildings and characteristic buildings on Central Street and Auxiliary Street are natural exhibits and are open to visitors.
The Central Street Architectural Art Museum currently has 75 European-style and imitation European-style buildings, and 36 protected buildings of various types, including 17 on the main street of Central Street. It brings together the most influential architectural schools in the history of Western architecture such as the Renaissance style of the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe, the Baroque style of the 17th century, the eclectic style of the 18th century and the Art Nouveau style of the 19th century.
These schools cover the centuries-old essence of Western architectural art. From the perspective of history and development, architectural styles that took hundreds of years to form in the West only took two short years on Central Street. , was formed in thirty years, which can be called a miracle in the history of world architecture.
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