About this place
A 1980s state-owned factory workers' residential compound sitting directly behind Ciqikou's main tourist street, still standing and still inhabited while everything around it gets redeveloped.
Drifter says
"Find the small uphill alleys heading away from Ciqikou's main street. Narrow staircases, retro balconies packed with potted plants, original brick dormitories. The elderly residents are unfazed by visitors — they have their own slow-paced lives and you are simply passing through...."