About this place
After Chongqing opened as an inland treaty port in 1891, this was the first designated cargo distribution point — pig bristles, silk and tea were loaded onto foreign ships from this riverbank and sent around the world. Today only vegetation-covered concrete ruins remain at the waterline.
Drifter says
"Carefully descend the moss-slicked stone steps to the river's edge and find the stones whose surfaces have been worn completely smooth. Those deep grooves are where wooden boat mooring ropes cut into the rock day after day for over a century. Crouch down and run your hands along ..."