CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- According to Chongqing Evening News, the “Super Street of the 1980s”, created by Center Street Community, Nanping Sub-district, Nan’an District, Chongqing Municipality, was very busy during this New Year’s Day holiday. Open-air movies, green trains, enamel cups, newspapers and magazines attracted an endless stream of tourists.

Nanping Center Street with the elements of the 1980s became more and more beautiful

“Nanping Center Street is more beautiful than before. When I walk in the streets and lanes, the familiar surrounding always brings back my memories.” During the New Year’s day holiday, Wang Hui, who moved away from Nanping Center Street for a long time, went back and made an appointment with the old neighbors to play together. Returning to the old place made her feel something.

Nanping Center Street and New Street are the blocks with concentrated buildings, large scale and dense population in the downtown area of Chongqing in the 1980s. For instance, Yangtze River Holiday Inn, the first foreign-funded four-star hotel in Chongqing, was built at 87 Nanping New Street in 1985; ICBC Chongqing Branch had its office building with 33 floors and an area of 22,000 square meters…In November 2020, the reconstruction of Nanping Center Street and New Street was launched, involving 65 buildings and benefiting 3,632 households. The reconstruction focuses on conservation. Modern design was used to present the storefronts in the style of the 1980s, while introducing new business categories to create a creative market, and night market economy.

After being updated, the 2km-long commercial loop is full of the 1980s elements: green trains, radio recorders, enamel cups, wooden clothespins, newspapers and magazines, light green house facades. Citizens feel as if they have been sent back to the 1980s. (Translated by Liu Hongyan, Fathom Language Limited)