Suzhou River North Bank: From Butterfly Bay to Guangfuli
The waterside of factories, flour mills and dockworkers
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Mengqing Park · Suzhou River Visitor Centre
Built on the site of the old Yichang Road waterworks, this exhibition tells the story of three decades of cleaning up the Suzhou River. Admission is free; locals just wander in on their evening walks.
Under Guangfu Road Bridge
Old men fish under the bridge. They catch snakehead and crucian carp, and they'll happily tell you which stretch of riverbed is silt and which is stone.
Fuxin No. 1 Flour Mill (former site)
Founded by the Rong family in 1913 with milling machinery imported from Henry Simon of Britain. Nationalised in 1956, shut down in 2005 — the red-brick silos are still standing.
Sihang Warehouse
The bullet holes on the west wall are real. Archaeologists peeled back the plaster in the 2015 restoration and reconstructed them along the actual ballistics of the 1937 'Eight Hundred Heroes' defence.
Guangfuli Lane
End of the walk. A 1929 Cantonese-style lane where residents still hang their bedding to dry. Cut through it to Wuning Road Bridge; cross over for Hanzhong Road station on Line 13.
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