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1、公司绝密黑龙江哈尔滨中央大街英文导游词导游英语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 about 40 minutes. those who do not like walking may keep seated， our coach will go along another stree
2、t and stop at the flood control monument. those who cannot walk that far may take a taxi to the flood control monument. now let6s get off the coach， and take a walk on zhongyang street.Zhongyang street measures 1450 meters from jingwei street in the south to the flood control monument on the riverba
3、nk in the north. this is chinas 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 stree
4、t 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 chi
5、na street.Have you noticed the cobbled road surface? this is the only cobbled street left in harbin. this cobbled street was paved in 1925. 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 the
6、1920s. 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 individual styles. therefore， the street not only looked like a foreign street， but also was controlled by for
7、eigners. now this smooth cobbled street may remind us of the past when foreigners were sitting in chariots along the street， as if we could still hear the horse-hoofs clicking on cobbles.Over half a century is past ， zhongyang street is weather-beaten. with the implementation of reform and opening-u
8、p， it is ready to wele visitors with a new outlook.The building in front of us is very attractive. its some and arched windows are typical of the byzantine style popular in europe during the middle ages. it was built in 1934 and it was a shoe shop owned by a czech. after liberation， it became a spec
9、ialty shop-women and childrens department store. it is the biggest specialty shop along zhongyang street. there are a good variety of modities. now some world famous specialty chains have also set up branches down here， such as crocodile， bossini and so on. you can see some gentlemen also wandering
10、in the women and childrens department store. at such a good shopping place， they will not walk out empty-handed.Opposite the women and childrens department store is the central shopping city opened in november 1994. on its original site there were five small stores run by russians， which were built
11、in 1932. after liberation， they were turned into one department store. in 1994， the old building was torn down， and this prehensive department store was built. the architecture is a bination of a european castle with modern architecture. it has bee a new scenic spot on zhongyang street.At we go alon
12、g the road， we are able to see the central pharmacy. it was a bungalow before. in 1912， german sidemens opened a shop here to sell electrical equipment and materials. after liberation， it was reconstructed. now you can find not only Medicine here， but also the gold lion shop， a super-market and a ke
13、ntucky fried chicken restaurant.This shopping center was opened in 1995. its original site was a shop managed by a swede. it dealt in china， porcelain and enamelware. after liberation， it became a food-store. the building you see now was designed by a famous architect in heilongjiang. it is a masterpiece of adopting relief sculptures in modern construction. this building is an attractive site in zhongyang street.共3页，当前第1页1233
