Qiaoxi History Jiequ
Riverside industrial quarter of restored brick mills and warehouses along a historic canal wharf.
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This guide to Qiaoxi History Jiequ in Hangzhou opens on the Grand Canal's southern wharf in 1889, when a financier named Pang Yuanji and merchant Ding Bing put up capital for Hangzhou's first mechanized silk-reeling mill, then expanded two years later into a cotton mill with its own power generator. It follows how that investment reshaped the neighborhood, pulling fishermen and porters from around Gongchen Bridge into shift work almost overnight. Stand in front of the old brick mill shed and you are standing where Zhejiang first lit up before its neighbors did.
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