Plan your visit
- City Chongqing
- Area Nan'an District
- Nearest Subway Line Loop (Haitangxi Station)
- Vibe Unique, Photospots
- Crowded Low (Mostly abandoned ruins)
- Price Free
- Suggested time 1h
About this place
After Chongqing opened as an inland treaty port in 1891, this creek mouth became the boundary where foreign merchant ships gathered for customs inspection — the warehouses of the famous Andersen & Co. once lined the inlet here. Today only decaying brick warehouses and industrial ruins remain.
Drifter says
"Follow the creek bed all the way to where it meets the Yangtze. During low water season, look on the exposed riverbed rocks for massive rusted iron rings hammered deep into the stone over a century ago to moor foreign steam merchant ships — the earliest physical evidence of this inland city being pulled into global trade. The contrast between corroded ironwork and the gleaming CBD across the water is brutal and perfect."
