Museums planned along Huangpu
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YANGPU District plans to build a cluster of museums along the Huangpu River showcasing China’s industrial history dating back over a century, the local government said yesterday.
They will feature the country’s oldest shipyard, a textile mill, a gas plant and a fish market.
Yangpu has listed 32 historically protected buildings from these early industries along a 5.5 kilometer section of the river.
They will be preserved as museums or exhibition halls, said district director Xie Jiangang.
The Shanghai Shipyard, which has been relocated, has left a large number of facilities such as crane towers, conveyor belts, gear wheels and pipelines in its original address, according to a team with Fudan University who were invited by the district government to research valuable industrial relics in the area.
Two major shipyards, a workshop and a historic building with Shanghai’s earliest elevators are all worth being preserved and exhibited to the public, an expert with the team said.
China’s first 10,000-ton ship, the Shaoxing, was built in the shipyard in 1978 and the nation’s first oil drilling platform was also built there in 1984. The platform is still operating.
Some equipment and relics of the nation’s first textile mill, built in 1915, and the major seafood market which opened in 1946 will also be developed for exhibition.
A two-story wood and brick British style country villa which was the residence of the British boss of the textile mill has been converted into the visitors’ center for the area.
Other exhibits are devoted to the city’s water and electricity plants. The Shanghai Tap Water Exhibition Hall has been built in a historic office building at Yangshupu Water Plant, which opened in 1883. The water plant is still one of the city’s major plants.
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