When did the Bund begin to be built?

After 1840, Shanghai was opened to the outside world as one of the five trading ports. 1845, British colonists seized the Bund and established the British Concession. 1849, French colonists also seized the Bund and established the French Concession. From then on to the early 1940s, the Bund was successively occupied by the British Concession and the French Concession, which were called "the Bund in the British Concession" and "the Bund in France" respectively. The Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession and the Public Bureau of the French Concession are their highest municipal institutions and leading organs respectively.

Concession is like a sovereign area, and western powers manage it in their own way. When the concession was completed, the Bund became the earliest and most prosperous place in the concession. The early Bund was a foreign trade center, where foreign companies flourished and trade flourished. Since the late19th century, many foreign banks and Chinese banks have been established on the Bund, which has become Shanghai's "Financial Street", also known as "Oriental Wall Street".

As a result, the Bund has become a "land of feng shui". Owning a piece of land on the Bund is not only a symbol of wealth, but also a symbol of reputation. After companies and financial enterprises occupied a place on the Bund, they began to build the company building. Most of the buildings on the Bund have been rebuilt three times or more, and architects from all over the world have shown their talents here, so that the Little Bund has more than 20 buildings of different periods, different countries and different styles, so it is also called the "World Architecture Expo".