
Huangpu District is the area with the largest density of historical buildings in Shanghai. There are 289 excellent historical buildings and 570 buildings in the district, accounting for 26% of the city; there are 536 immovable cultural relics at all levels, accounting for nearly one-sixth of the total amount of immovable cultural relics in the city; there are four historical and cultural areas with different styles, with a total area of 581.3 hectares, accounting for 31% of the land area of Huangpu District.
Huangpu is also a growing urban organism. Here, culture and architecture are intertwined, telling the changes of history and the progress of the times. Among them, the District Housing Management Bureau and all sectors of society have devoted a lot of effort to the protection of historical buildings.

Use voice to tell you the story of Huangpu Libao

Act 1
Nanchang Road Residents' speech "Buddha transformation"

Ms. Bu
Walking under the paulownia tree to read the four seasons, use a brush to describe the mood Ruijin Residents
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When I was a child, I lived on Nanchang Road. After dinner, the elders often tell stories about the past Nanchang Road. A long time ago, this place was called Huanlong Road, and there were countless celebrities who lived in it, including Bajin , Xu Zhimo , Lin Fengmian ...
Our house is New Style Lilan . When it was completed, it was equipped with an independent bathroom and a kitchen with gas. The whole street was covered with sycamore trees. With the four seasons, it changed to decorate the quiet living environment, which was a petty bourgeois style. But later, various small shops along the street became more and more diverse, and there were more and more residents in the alleys. In daily life, several families started to use a bathroom together. Every time at dinner time, neighbors squeezed around and cooked...
The times are changing with each passing day, but the houses are getting older and older. The walls cracked, the roof leaked, and the floor collapsed. These reasons forced many people to leave here and resume, and slowly, the once enviable neighborhood began to decline. Many elderly people were reluctant to leave, saying that they were used to living here, but the living environment without a bathroom and shower room was really overwhelming! Everyone hopes that the government will come to repair the house as soon as possible, but they are afraid that the government will only save face.
Until that year, comrades from the street and housing management bureau took the designer to see the house. They carefully inquired about the different living environments of each house and the use of kitchen and bathroom, and communicated with us over and over again. At first we were questioned and unwilling to transform. Later, when we saw the "one household, one plan" for residents and the "model house" we had prepared, everyone immediately looked forward to the changes in their homes! There is an independent bathroom, the original old bathtub was replaced with a shower room, and the elderly were also thoughtfully equipped with an aging-friendly device for the elderly home decoration . These little changes greatly facilitate our lives. Now it seems that the old house not only restores its historical appearance, but also has modern usage functions, which complement each other with beauty and practicality. Our community has now become a new landmark and a popular internet celebrity check-in point. Everyone is proud to live here for such earth-shaking changes! Thanks to the government's reconstruction for bringing us more comfortable and convenient living environment, which is our voice.
Nanchang Road Street View
has changed from "unwilling to change" to "voluntary change", and has changed from "not caring" to "consulting together", which reflects the painstaking efforts in house repair. In 2018, with the start of the house repair and comprehensive improvement work in Hengfu Style District, the focus of the house repair work in Huangpu District was on effectively improving people's livelihood. After that, not only did it "change gears and speed up" in the quality and standards of house repairs, but it also paid attention to the "urgent, difficult and anxious" issues in people's lives, and truly "ask the people for advice and needs".
Libao Construction Overhaul As a people-oriented project,
has poured into the housing management department's efforts.
Act 2
Government staff said "management"

Guan Junlin
"Conservative welcomes the new" is my original intention of work

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Huangpu District has a high density of historical buildings. As grassroots staff of the Housing Management Bureau, our original intention of work is always to protect these "old" parts while the city is developing towards "new".
The story I told today took place on Nanchang Road...
Nanchang Road is 1,690 meters long. The eastern section is located in Hengfu Historical and Cultural Style District, Huangpu District, next to Huaihai Middle Road to the north, and next to Fuxing Middle Road to the south. It is located here, including the Science Hall, the former site of the editorial department of "New Youth" , and the large number of living rooms and garden houses of , which is the former residence of many celebrities. Nowadays, the scale is pleasant, the sycamore tree is hidden, and the business is rich. It is already a historical district with a strong sense of life.
In 2018, we began to repair the protected buildings along Nanchang Road. Our work is to encourage the renovation of historical buildings and improve the living environment of the people while ensuring that the building structure is not damaged and the historical style is continued. Faced with the precious heritage that is not renewable, we are walking on thin ice, cautiously and cautiously holding an "embroidery" attitude, how to protect and renovate each building, on the one hand, we need to consult information and excavate stories, and on the other hand, we have to go through many field investigations and expert discussions. Today, these excellent historical buildings have transformed into cultural exhibition halls and poetry bookstores, improving the quality of the city, and citizens can truly get closer to historical buildings and enjoy the buildings.
Nanchang Road has now become a veritable "architecture readable" neighborhood. In the future, we also hope to provide more "Huangpu samples" for the "new to history" of historical buildings in urban renewal. This is our original intention.
In addition to the protective repair of Nanchang Road, Huangpu District has formed a complete set of management mechanisms and methods from the establishment of rules and regulations to the guidance of planning. During the 14th Five-Year Plan, Huangpu District took the lead in formulating the "Special Plan for Protecting and Utilizing Styles" and simultaneously supported the "Implementation Measures for Strengthening the Protection of Historical Styles Areas, Excellent Historical Buildings and Immovable Cultural Relics in Huangpu District", drawing a blueprint for the protection of future historical styles.
also made various tricks in terms of system and mechanism. It has formulated a classification management system for construction projects and is equipped with a series of management guidelines such as "Guidelines for the Management Process of Excellent Historical Building Projects in Huangpu District", "Guidelines for the Daily Management of Excellent Historical Buildings", and "Operation Manual for Simple Decoration and Decoration Projects", which greatly improved the efficiency of administrative services.
Before the renovation
After the renovation
The results of the protection of these historical buildings ultimately continued the urban context and enriched the urban landscape in the form of material space, becoming Shanghai's city business card. In Huangpu, people can not only wander in the Nanchang Road neighborhood with a strong atmosphere of life, but also enjoy the magnificent public historical buildings on Nanjing East Road .


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Huangpu attracts the attention of tourists at home and abroad
and many historical architecture enthusiasts.
As a native Huangpu person, how do you view Huangpu?

Act 3
Old Shanghai uncle watch "new" Nanjing Road

Chen Chao
native Huangpu people
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I am old Shanghai, a Shanghai native who is born and raised in Huangpu District since I was a child. Nanjing Road is where my little morning light is white. Later, due to the demolition, I moved to the outside area and came to Baixiang on Nanjing Road less often. A while ago, I heard that the east expansion project of Nanjing Road has been completed and the street has been opened, so I brought a group of friends from other places here this morning to come here for a white look.
As soon as he walked to Nanjing Road, his eyes lit up immediately. The road is also new, the street is also new, and the shops are also new. If you bounce your eyes and don’t be too good. The first store on Nanjing Road is the Peace Hotel. I was about to introduce to my friends from other places that this is the largest hotel in the Far East, but I didn't expect that all of them would disappear. It turned out that they were at the entrance of the hotel. The renovated Nanjing Road is becoming more and more high-tech and modern. There is a nameplate in front of each characteristic building, and there is a QR code next to it for tourists to scan the code. After the tourists scan the code, they will see a detailed introduction to each house on their mobile phones, and even a voice broadcast. It’s amazing that the renovated Nanjing Road is becoming more and more modern and more humane.
Visit the Haoheping Hotel and ran west along Nanjing Road. At the first intersection, there were two famous commercial buildings. The building in the northeast corner was Huiluo Company. Ala Lao Shanghai Lao Libazai liked to buy daily necessities and down clothing here. Diagonally opposite Huiluo Company is Central Mall . After the renovation of the Central Shopping Mall, it looks even more graceful. The most attractive thing is its ceiling, which is also a "big canopy" on the roof, which shines brightly under the neon lights at night. The old central mall was a flea market, which was a mess of home appliances and other things. It was different now. Now there are not only jazz bands, but also coffee shops, old and high-end ones!
The building is Lao Jiefu . I really don’t recognize it. Now it has become Huawei global flagship store. On its exterior wall, a large screen says "Hello, Shanghai!" We can see the sign so far from the screen. Spiritual, sweet! Huawei, the pride of us Chinese must go in and see. In Huawei's store, the decoration of rose gold , don't be too shaved with watches! In general, Nanjing Road may not be recognized by memory alone. Ala Lao ran to Nanjing Road and saw these old houses, but the old houses had already exuded new vitality, as the so-called "new wine in old bottles".
architecture is the sound of the city's solidification notes and the pulse of the city's beating. These historical buildings that carry memories are engraved with the past and connected with the future. They are a shining business card for Shanghai's whole country and even the world, and also reflects Shanghai's demeanor and mind to respect history and culture.








, including the eastern section of Nanjing Road, , the "second facade" of the Bund , is undergoing a butterfly transformation. The Bund has 177 old buildings built before 1949, including 36 of the Linjiang Building, which is the first facade of the Bund. It has achieved protective repairs and industrial adjustments in the 1990s. The old building behind Linjiang buildings has gradually declined over the years due to dispersed property rights, lack of maintenance, and insufficient supporting facilities. Under the leadership of the district party committee and government, since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the "Second Facade" has been actively renewing and renovating, including the whole neighborhood renovation and development projects with the 179th neighborhood Central Shopping Mall and the 160th neighborhood Old City Government Building, as well as individual projects such as the Bank of East Asia, the Bunemen Building, and the Bund Source are also actively renewing.





How can the decaying historical buildings rejuvenate in a way that protects and utilizes both
?
Many professionals in history have given their wisdom.
Act 4
"Metamorphosis" by the little designer

Li Yingzi
soft outside and strong inside. Designer

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I am a Libao architectural designer. The projects I participated in before sounded a bit "high-end", such as the renovation of Huawei flagship store on Nanjing East Road, the repair of the Tianchan Yifu stage, and the gorgeous transformation of the Bund Central Mall, all of which have poured into countless hard-working days and nights.
Later, I received a brand new task, which was to become a community architect and update and design the Libao buildings in the community. What I was facing was no longer various bricks, stones, tiles, and columns, but various built, dilapidated and narrow spaces. Those garden villas and old buildings that looked at the scenery on the outside were living in residents who were even embarrassed in sanitary facilities. From then on, I felt that I had a new mission. I began to immerse myself in the renovation and renovation of residential historical buildings and participated in the renewal projects such as Nanchang Road, Fuxing Road, and Changle Village. These projects directly improve the quality of people's living space and create a beautiful urban space without losing its fireworks.
The old should be restored as it is. As a protector architect, our basic philosophy is to maintain the authenticity and integrity of historical buildings. However, the architect's original intention is to make people's living environment better. How to make historical buildings both "protect" and "warm" is a difficult problem facing each of us designers.Fortunately, we have many partners participating together. They are department managers, public housing properties, community neighborhood committees, and many experts have consultations together. At the regular project meeting, we argued over and over again. On the construction samples, we tried samples over and over again, and on the consultation of residents' wishes, we talked over and over again. It turned out that in addition to professional "technology", the renovation of these old houses also needed to have touching "sincerity".
For the arrangement of pipelines and the selection of indoor materials, we have comprehensively considered the cultural characteristics of historical buildings and the comfort of people's use, and realized "update" in "protection" and "liveable" in "update". This is the true intention of our designers.
allows the protection of historical buildings to be both "high-end" and "fireworks". Huangpu District is an area with high requirements for protection of historical style and prominent binary structure. Although it has "golden business cards" such as the Bund, Sinan Mansion , Xintiandi , it also has the embarrassment of carrying toilets in the second-level and below. Therefore, if the protection of historical buildings is only aimed at "high-end" buildings, or is just something that some design, architecture and academic elites are discussing, then the existence of the "people" behind it will inevitably be ignored, and the protection work will be one-sided and unsustainable.




Live Protection experts went to the site for exploration
Huangpu District fully realized that the work of the year-end insurance requires the joint participation and consultation of all parties in the society. Therefore, professional teams such as community planners, craftsmanship studios, cultural relics protection volunteers, resident volunteers and even social groups were invited to participate in the work, so that more people can understand the year-end insurance, participate in the year-end insurance, and pay attention to the year-end insurance, so that the year-end insurance as a wide range of social activities are rooted in urban culture.





Historical buildings tell the story of the city's cultural quality, historical process and urban spirit. Today, on the Bund, Nanchang Road, and on the banks of the Su River, more and more masterpieces of historical buildings protection and updates show the historical heritage and the bright colors of the times of Shanghai. Next, the Huangpu District Housing Management Bureau will continue to carefully protect these historical buildings as always, and continuously create new space for urban development with more profound, more dynamic and more distinctive features.
edit / Sun Chaohui
source / Huangpu House Management