About this place

After Chongqing opened as an inland treaty port in 1891, this creek mouth became the boundary where foreign merchant ships gathered for customs inspection — the warehouses of the famous Andersen & Co. once lined the inlet here. Today only decaying brick warehouses and industrial ruins remain.

Drifter says

"Follow the creek bed all the way to where it meets the Yangtze. During low water season, look on the exposed riverbed rocks for massive rusted iron rings hammered deep into the stone over a century ago to moor foreign steam merchant ships — the earliest physical evidence of this ..."

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