TIT Creative Industry Zone
Repurposed nineteen-fifties textile machinery plant of red-brick sheds turned tech and creative campus, birthplace of a global messaging app.
This guide to the TIT Creative Industry Zone in Guangzhou starts at an old iron blast-furnace blower, one of the last machines left from the Guangzhou Textile Machinery Plant that once filled these red-brick sheds with the shriek of hot metal. You'll hear how the plant was born in 1956, when more than twenty family-run machinery workshops were merged into state ownership, and how it ran for half a century before its last furnace went cold in 2007. Stop by that battered blower near the path, one of the few pieces of machinery still standing from the old factory floor.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.