黑龙江哈尔滨中央大街景点英文导游词Ladies and gentlemen: Today we are going to visit zhongyang street. this is the downtown area. in order to better know the street, we are going to walk through it, which takes about40 minutes. those who do not like walking may keep seated, our coach will go along another street and stop at the flood control monument. those who cannot walk that far may take a taxi to the flood control monument. now let6”s get off the coach, and take a walk on zhongyang street. Zhongyang street measures1450 meters from jingwei street in the south to the flood control monument on the riverbank in the north. this is china”s longest walkway. the street was built at the end of the last century. it was connected to a wharf at the songhua river. because of the constant transport of the goods needed for building the china eastern railway, a shopping center began to take shape along this street at the turn of the century. harbin at that time was a semi-colonial city with a foreign population of many thousands. politics and economy were actually controlled by foreign powers. owing to the concentration of chinese shops along this street, foreigners took it as a china town and called it china street. Have you noticed the cobbled road surface? this is the only cobbled street left in harbin. this cobbled street was paved in1925. thanks to the good quality, the street has kept in good shape with a few repairs in the past. this street began to take shape as an international street in the1920s. there were over a hundred shops and many were owned by forergners, such as russians, greeks, czechs, swedes, swiss, frenchmen, germans and englishmen. they built their shops in their in...
