Jiefang Road, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province

Jiefang Road

Jiefang Road is located in the northeast of Xi'an city. It starts from the railway station square in the north and ends at dacha Shizi in the south, 1900 meters long. 27.5m wide. Cement pavement. In the Qing Dynasty, it was the North-South street in Mancheng. In 1927, it was widened to Shangren Road, which is an important traffic road to the railway station. It has a history of 82 years. In 1945, it was renamed Zhongzheng road. Before liberation, the road was narrow, uneven, and the houses were simple. It was a place where hawkers gathered. In 1949, Xi'an was liberated. To commemorate this historical event, Shangren road was renamed Jiefang Road.

Location overview

Jiefang Road is located in the northeast of Xi'an city. It starts from the railway station square in the north and ends at dacha Shizi in the south, 1900 meters long. 27.5m wide. Cement pavement. In the Qing Dynasty, it was the North-South street in Mancheng. In 1927, it was widened to Shangren Road, which is an important traffic road to the railway station. It has a history of 82 years. In 1945, it was renamed Zhongzheng road. Before liberation, the road was narrow, uneven, and the houses were simple. It was a place where hawkers gathered. In 1949, Xi'an was liberated. To commemorate this historical event, Shangren road was renamed Jiefang Road.

Before liberation, there were hooligans, spies, beggars and prostitutes. In 1950, it was widened and rebuilt. The north end was opened up as a station square. Since liberation, it has evolved into one of the most developed and prosperous downtown areas in Xi'an, one of the main traffic arteries with a rapid traffic flow and an average daily personnel flow of more than 200000. There are many shops along the street, including Xi'an Minsheng Department Store Co., Ltd., Jiefang Road Baihuo store, Jiefang Hotel, Jiefang Road jiaozi restaurant, Xi'an fourth hospital, etc. It connects the railway station square in the north, the East Street of the commercial center in the south, Zhongshan Gate in the East and North Street in the West. Starting from Xi'an, you can go to Banpo Museum, HuaQingChi, Qinshihuang Mausoleum and terracotta warriors Museum in the East, Chengyang Museum, Maoling, Zhaoling, Shunling and Qianling in the west, Shaanxi Provincial Museum, Dayan, Xiaoyan pagoda, Xingqing Park, Xingshan temple, Xingjiao temple, Cuihua Mountain, Caotang temple and Nanwutai in the south, Yaowang, Huangdi mausoleum and revolutionary memorial site Yan'an in the north. Central and East, west five road intersection, even the word built a circular footbridge. In the north, there are more than 20 trams and buses leading to the railway station square of "Xi'an gate".

Historical evolution

Xi'an Jiefang Road, as the core area of the city, has been highly valued by the rulers of previous dynasties. In 1370, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty granted his second son Zhu Shuang the title of the king of Qin. The palace of the king of Qin, built in Xincheng, was of a large scale at that time. In 1644, after the Qing army entered the pass and settled in Beijing, about half of the eight banners were stationed in major strategic cities and water and land centers. In order to prevent the Manchu from being Tonghua by the Han nationality, block the communication between the Manchu and the Han nationality, and strengthen the power of the Eight Banners garrison to suppress the Han nationality and other nationalities, the rulers of the Qing dynasty built "Manchu cities" one after another for the eight banners and their two families to live in the garrison cities. Xi'an's "Mancheng" was built in the northeast corner of the city with Jiefang Road as the center.

In 1928, the Xi'an municipal government officially designated the original "Mancheng" as a new urban area to pioneer and sell land for development. In the autumn of that year, Shangren Road (later renamed as Zhongzheng Road), which is now Jiefang Road, was built. At the same time, the East and West No. 1 to No. 8 roads, which intersect Jiefang Road, are called "filial piety, fraternity, loyalty, faith, propriety, ceremony, honesty and shame" starting with "Chong". These place names, infiltrating the traditional cultural value of the Chinese nation, have profound historical accumulation.

In 1935, the Longhai railway was opened to Xi'an. The Xi'an municipal government chiseled through the city wall at the north end of Shangren Road, opened up the central gate (now Jiefang gate), and extended Shangren road to the railway station square in the north. This is the first reconstruction of Jiefang Road. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese war in 1937, a large number of refugees from the enemy occupied areas flowed in, and a large number of factories and enterprises moved in. Jiefang Road has developed into a commercial street, and the railway station has developed into an industrial area.

In 1949, Xi'an was liberated. In July of the same year, the original Zhongzheng road was officially renamed Jiefang Road.

In 1952, the people's Government widened Jiefang Road. Jiefang Road became the first high-grade concrete pavement in Xi'an. The width of the roadway was 18 meters, and the width of the left and right sidewalks was 6 meters. And has built Jiefang Road first department store (today's women's and children's products store), Jiefang Department store, Minsheng department store, Jiefang Road dumpling hall and other well-known national commercial enterprises. Jiefang Road has become the most prosperous commercial district in Xi'an.

From the 1950s to the mid-1990s, Jiefang Road was a legend, like Wangfujing in Beijing and Nanjing Road in Shanghai, which became a symbol of prosperity

Regional characteristics

Jiefang Road is 1900 meters long with a resident population of 120000. The special geographical location makes this area present two characteristics of inclusiveness and openness.

Inclusiveness. This inclusiveness is mainly reflected in the fact that it does not exclude foreigners, does not deceive students, and always gives foreigners a sense of belonging. During the Anti Japanese War, after refugees from Henan and other enemy occupied areas came to Xi'an, most of them settled down along Jiefang Road. Here, Henan people, Shaanxi people, people from all over the country, Han people, Hui people, people of other nationalities live in harmony for a long time and live in harmony. They are contributing to their own good life and the construction and development of this city from generation to generation. People on Jiefang Road can basically speak Mandarin, Shaanxi dialect and Henan dialect. The way of communication represented by language and the way of life dominated by pasta have long made it difficult for people to tell who is local and who is from other places.

Openness. As Jiefang Road is the only place for passengers to get on and get off at Xi'an railway station and Shaanxi Provincial long-distance bus station, many people go to all parts of the country from here, and bring back the wonderful things from outside to Xi'an through Jiefang Road, so that this inland city of China can get in touch with everything from outside at the first time, and thus affect and radiate to the inside and outside of the province and even the northwest. Jiefang Road continues to accept all kinds of new, different and special phenomena with an open mind, and organically combines tradition and Modernity in the market. The culture with advanced direction and vigorous vitality is inherited and carried forward among the majority of residents. Through the window of Jiefang Road, the people of the ancient city were the first to breathe the freshest air from all over the country, feel the most cutting-edge development achievements of all fronts in the country, and the modern Chinese civilization from all over the country. Through Jiefang Road, the ancient, heavy and modern Xi'an culture was spread all over the world.

In the past 100 years, Jiefang Road area has gone through the vicissitudes of the century from a closed and backward "Mancheng" to a vigorous and vibrant commercial city, witnessing the great changes of the ancient city, and has become a beautiful business card of Xi'an.

Why business flourishes

The reason for the prosperity of Jiefang Road business has its distinctive characteristics of the times. When the Longhai Railway extended westward to Xi'an in the 1930s, it was just on the eve of the Anti Japanese war. Due to the invasion of Japanese invaders, many enterprises in Henan, Hebei, Shandong and other enemy occupied areas moved westward, and then a large number of refugees also flowed westward along the railway into Xi'an. Because Jiefang Road was originally a "Mancheng", during the Xinhai Revolution, "Mancheng" was destroyed by war, almost in ruins, and then after several wars, this area was desolate It's open and sparsely populated. This has provided enough space for the enterprises and a large number of refugees to settle down here. The prosperity of Jiefang Road began from then on.

For a city, the railway station area has always been a prosperous area with dense passenger flow and large population flow. Xi'an is no exception. As the main channel for passengers to get on and off, Jiefang Road has a large flow of people from morning to night. Due to the underdeveloped urban traffic and the lack of buses for a long time, a large number of waiting and transit passengers need to stay near the railway station. The food, accommodation, shopping, leisure and entertainment activities of these passengers constitute a huge commercial demand in Jiefang Road area Please. During the Anti Japanese War, due to the invasion of the Japanese army, the territory was occupied, and the state affairs were difficult. While Xi'an became a strategic economic development town in the rear area, there were many refugees and abundant labor force. At the same time, due to the initial formation of the commercial market, businessmen from Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi and other places successively opened shops on Jiefang Road. At that time, there were more than 2000 shops and more than 3100 street vendors. Due to social unrest, Xi'an lost its wealth As prices soared, a large number of unemployed workers turned into vendors for their livelihood. At that time, near the bus stop of the Jiefang Road people's amusement park, it was also a collection of Xi'an quyi essence. Not only did juggling, dancing, playing with guns, but also performing hundreds of entertainers and twenty or thirty tea houses. Jiefang Road area presents a kind of abnormal prosperous situation.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Jiefang Road area gained a new life. After the socialist transformation in 1956, a large number of peddlers embarked on the road of cooperation, Jiefang Road showed a new look. Due to the relatively convenient traffic conditions (before liberation, the only two bus lines in the city passed through Jiefang Road), in the era of shortage of economy, Jiefang Road's business activities were rich and colorful, and distinctive, and people's travel mainly depended on cars and trains In the era of the 1970s, when the commodity economy was underdeveloped and materials were in short supply, Jiefang Road occupied the favorable time and place for commercial activities. The operators of Jiefang Road opened their minds earlier and had advanced business vision. In addition, it was convenient to purchase goods by car. The shops in Jiefang Road area were of good quality, low price, complete varieties and a wide range of goods. Because of people's herd consumption psychology, Jiefang Road once became Xi'an The most prosperous place for consumption.

After the reform and opening up, Jiefang Road has continued its glory. From 1978 to 1993, Jiefang Road business district entered a golden age. Reform and opening up has greatly liberated the productive forces. From the era of planned economy to the era of market economy, the new town has also experienced a historic leap forward. For a moment, every inch of land and every inch of money, merchants gathered here,

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