One more good place to visit when traveling to Chongqing is Tangjiatuo on the north bank of the Yangtze River, which is not far from Yuzhong.

Tang Jiatuo has always been in the mouth of the people of Chongqing. If someone fails to invest or loses money playing cards, they will say "the loss is to Tang Jiatuo" without even thinking about it. In fact, many people don't know where Tang Jiatuo is, or even know that Tang Jiatuo really exists. Now, let me tell you clearly that Tangjiatuo not only exists, but also has the earliest shipyard in Chongqing and the largest refuge during the Anti-Japanese War. This place will become the next "Ciqikou".

The origin of Tangjiatuo slang

It is said that when Huguang occupied Sichuan, a man named Tang came to Tuohe Bay in Huishui. In order to make a living, he built houses here and hoeed and cultivated the land. Afterwards, residents gradually gathered to form streets. So the name Tangjiatuo came here. The upper reaches of the Yangtze River are turbulent, but when they reach Huishuituo, the water slows down. All kinds of things wash down from the upper reaches, swirl around here, and finally float on the shore. The rumor that the slang saying "lost to Tang Jiatuo" is that people who failed in business chose to jump into the river because they couldn't bear the blow. The river washed the corpse to Tangjiatuo, which is why there are many ghost stories and this slang in Tangjiatuo, but there is no way to study this.

Asia Petroleum Company

After the opening of Chongqing as a port, the British imperialists established the Asia Petroleum Company in Tangjiatuo, which mainly dealt in kerosene, gasoline, etc. It can hold more than 10,000 tons of oil. It once occupied an important position in Chongqing's industrial history and even controlled the supply of kerosene throughout China and even Asia. But after the liberation of Chongqing, Asia Oil Company withdrew from Chongqing. This oil depot became the ship repair yard of Dongfeng Shipbuilding Industry Company. Now walk into the Tangjiatuo Old Street Ship Repair Factory. On the top of the hill behind the factory, there is a well-preserved blue-grey three-story building, which is the executive room of Asia Petroleum Company. The executive room means manager, because the executive officers at that time were all British. The architectural style is Western European, so this house is also called a "foreign house".

The largest refugee shelter in Chongqing

In 1937, the Nationalist Government moved the capital to Chongqing. In 1938, the Japanese army bombed the urban area of ??Chongqing. At that time, famous government officials, celebrities and people living in the urban area They all came to Tangjiatuo to escape. Because Tangjiatuo was not far from the main city, and there were shuttle boats between Tangjiatuo and Chaotianmen at that time, it became the first choice to avoid the war. In order to provide shelter for the refugees, the Nationalist Government expropriated the land of a landowner named Xu in Tangjiatuo and built a new public village. It was very large and could accommodate three to four hundred families. In order to make the roads easier to walk, it also built a new village in wasteland and grain fields. Cement road. It has now been turned into a dormitory for Dongfeng Shipyard employees.

Dongfeng Shipyard

At that time, transportation was inconvenient and goods could only be transported by water. Tangjiatuo happened to be the dock where the ship docked. After liberation, Chongqing's shipbuilding industry continued to develop, and Dongfeng Shipyard appeared in Tangjiatuo, whose predecessor was the famous Chongqing Minsheng Machinery Factory. The first domestically produced steel ship in the southwest, the first luxury tourist ship on the Yangtze River, the largest 10,000-ton export ship in the southwest, and the first product oil tanker exported to Europe in the west were all born here. Anyone who worked here at that time would be envied by others, and it would be very flattering to tell people about it.

Chongqing Pharmaceutical No. 9 Factory

The predecessor of Chongqing Pharmaceutical Factory No. 9 is the Minkang Medical Cotton Gauze Factory in Nan'an. As a state-owned enterprise, the welfare benefits are relatively good. Not only does it have staff dormitories, but it also has a basketball court. venues and cinemas. While others are still watching movies in the open air, the employees and their families of Tangjiatuo Pharmaceutical Factory No. 9 already have decent indoor cinemas. Every time a movie is shown, there are always huge crowds of people. The company also organizes weekend dances such as Huang Kaiqin's "Sea of ??Love" and Wang Mingquan's "Thousands of Rivers and Mountains Are Always Love", which are songs that are often played at dance parties.

Rear Area Hospital of the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs and Sanmin Printing House

The former site of the Rear Area Hospital of the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs is in Tangjiatuo New Village. The hospital came to Chongqing with the Nationalist Government to treat the wounded during the Anti-Japanese War. There was a middle school next to the hospital at that time. Whenever a child got sick or fell, he would come to the hospital for treatment. Once, a boy in this middle school suffered a head injury and was sent to the hospital where he needed 4 stitches. The Sanmin Printing Office is located at No. 9, Village 3, Tangjiatuo. It was once a secret base for printing the Kuomintang’s legal tender during the Anti-Japanese War. Although it is now a bit dilapidated, traces of the past can still be seen from the construction style.

Tangjiatuo is no longer the poor and small place in the hearts of Chongqing people. According to the plan of the Chongqing Municipal Government, Tangjiatuo will be built into an ancient town like Ciqikou in the next 3-5 years, forming a pattern of "Ciqikou in the west and Tangjiatuo in the east". In the future, Tangjiatuo will not only appear in people's mouths, but also in their eyes. It will also be a holy place for taking photos and checking in.