How did Taibai Road in Jining, named after the great poet Li Bai, become the most prosperous commercial street in the area?

Taibai Road in Jining City is located in the core area of ??the city. It is not only a prosperous commercial street but also an important traffic trunk road. The full name of Taibai Road is Taibai Tower Road. It is named after the famous Taibai Tower in Jining beside the road. Jining people now refer to it as Taibai Road in spoken language. Taibai Tower is where the great Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai (also known as Taibai) lived in Jining. It has become one of the city's scenic spots. Taibailou Road is divided into three sections: East Road, West Road, and Middle Road. Middle Road is the most prosperous. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the entire urban construction of Jining began to spread and develop from Taibailou Middle Road.

In 1953, the Teng County Prefecture was moved to Jining and renamed Jining Prefecture. Although Jining was still a county-level city at that time, it was already the seat of the prefecture. Its status as a city was improved, and urban construction and development accelerated than before. On the basis of demolishing the city wall and filling in the moat, a 30-meter-wide brick road was built from the south entrance to the east of Taibai Tower. Later, on the north edge of this road from the south entrance to the east, Jining's first People's Cinema with a capacity of 1,000 people, a department store, Xinhua Bookstore, Post and Telecommunications Bureau and other facilities were built; to the west, a department store, the People's Bank of China, Insurance companies, supply and marketing cooperatives, hemp textile mills and other facilities. Gradually, a main thoroughfare in the center of the city was formed, which is now Taibailou Middle Road.

Taibai Road in the 1980s, this was the most prosperous department store area on Taibai Road. The Taibai community across the street had just been built. There were few cars and few people on Taibai Road at that time

Eight Taibai Road in the 1900s

Taibailou Middle Road has laid the most important commercial foundation in Jining City, and it is still the most popular. In 2010, Taibailou Road was expanded to two-way six lanes, and the Ruyi Bridge over the Gufu River and the Xingtang Bridge over the Liangji Canal were built in the east and west directions respectively, connecting Jiaxiang and Zoucheng. On the basis of its commercial status, Taibailou Road once again became Jining's The main transportation artery of the urban area.

This is Taibai Road before the renovation in 2010. It is not the bustling area of ??Taibai Road. It still looks like a small county town.

Taibai Road before the renovation

Today, there are many more main roads in Jining city than before, but the unique status of Taibailou Road is still irreplaceable in the hearts of Jining people.

This is Taibai Road in 2013. It is not much different from now, except that Wanda has not built it yet

Today’s Taibai Road