Chinatown in Sydney, Australia

There is no one from China to Sydney who doesn't go to Chinatown. They go sightseeing, shopping, taking photos, eating hometown meals, speaking hometown dialect and talking about hometown affairs, including nostalgia, friendship and affection. However, not everyone knows the origin of Sydney Chinatown. Since 1848, the fact that there are Chinese in Sydney has been recognized by most Chinese. At that time,? Nimrod? Entering Sydney Harbour from South China, carrying 12 1 passenger? Selling pigs? Workers from China who came in their capacity.

185 1 year, gold mines were discovered in Australia, and thousands of China people joined the gold rush. Most of them are young and middle-aged, with the purpose of coming to Australia to make a fortune and then returning to their native land. The first batch of China shops and hotels are located in the rocky area of Sydney, close to the pier, and have become the first? China City? , commonly known as Chinatown.

When the gold mine was completely excavated, most of the people who came to China returned to the motherland, but some of them stayed. /kloc-before 0/870, about 200 people from China lived in Loki. They depend on trade, making furniture, washing clothes and running hotels for a living. Others lived by growing vegetables or fishing and moved to the suburbs. Today's rock area has become a tourist area in Sydney. No one from China lives there except tourists.

Since 1960s, the fruit and vegetable market has been located in today's Jinbao Street, which is the second China City near Hi Market. At first, this Chinatown provided hotels and canteens for vegetable farmers. Later, the sojourners became Sydney residents, and Chinese families lived near Hi Market and extended to Sally Mountain not far away.

Nowadays, the Australian-Chinese Association at the intersection of Jinbao Street and Mary Street, and the Chinese Club Auditorium at Mary Street 18 all show that Chinese people continue to live in this area.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Sydney City Council rebuilt the market near Darling Harbour, and China market workers and vegetable farmers returned here. Therefore, Dexin Street became the third Chinatown.

Is this what people often say? Sydney's dragon, with its feet in Loki, is in hi Market and its head in Dexin Street? .

Before the 1920s, China businessmen bought real estate in new market areas, and large wholesale companies run by China people rented market buildings from the city council. Clan associations and organizations, shops and restaurants have also been established.

Until the 1970s, the Australian federal government relaxed the restrictions on immigrants from China, and the number of China talents living in Sydney gradually increased. The market has left the city, but so far, the support for Chinatown is mainly retail and cultural affairs. Some old shops expand their properties in Dexin Street, while new immigrants buy nearby places. Dexin Street Shopping Mall 1980 opened.

Now, people see lion dances, lanterns and colorful archways in Chinatown, but who can find traces of early China people living here behind them?

Since Sydney City Council established a new market in the early 20th century, Chinatown has moved to its present position. There are five market buildings and other shops here, all built between 1999 and 19 15.

Dexin Street is the center of Sydney's Chinatown. Two Chinese archways were built at the north and south ends of Dexin Street, spanning the street. This is part of the building plan that Sydney City Council started in the early 1970s, which led to the emergence of this area? China's face? .

Today, there are 250,000 to 300,000 overseas Chinese in Sydney. In addition to downtown Chinatown, there are also new Chinatowns around it, such as Hausville, Baramada, Cheshire and Asif, the most famous of which is Asif? Shanghai street? .

There, the sign says? Shanghai? "Two words" shops are connected with each other. Speaking Shanghainese, eating Shanghainese food and buying Shanghainese goods is like returning to Shanghai, not Sydney. Tourists from China, especially Shanghainese, feel particularly cordial here, just like returning to their hometown.

In the past two decades, the number of new immigrants from China in Sydney has greatly increased, and their education level has become higher and higher. They are no longer confined to the ubiquitous Chinatown, but more integrated into the mainstream society and contribute their talents to Australia's economic and social development.