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Baofenglong Trading House 宝丰隆商号Bǎofēnglóng Shānghào
National heritage site · Honghe, Yunnan
- Time needed
- About an hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Honghe
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Baofenglong Trading House
A tin-smelting works and residence built between 1916 and 1926 for a leading Gejiu tin merchant surnamed Li, described as the city's only surviving tin-smelting site of the Republican era. Its Chinese-Western buildings include an east gate tower with an opera stage, a four-storey French-style main block, a three-storey embroidery tower, a corner blockhouse and the remains of the smelting furnaces.
How to get to Baofenglong Trading House
On Shengli Road (Baofeng Lane) in Gejiu, a short taxi ride from the city centre; it was closed to the public for restoration in 2020, and no reopening has been confirmed since.
Nearby
- Jianshui Ancient Town 建水古城 40 km
A Ming gate tower, a great Confucian temple and grilled tofu on the way to Yuanyang - Yuanyang Rice Terraces 元阳梯田 50 km
Thousands of flooded paddies mirroring the sunrise across southern Yunnan's hills
Also within 20 km: Laoyin Mountain 老阴山 (under 10 km).
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