Changyu listed as national industrial heritage

The early factory of Changyu winery. [Photo/Xinhua] 

Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wine Co has ranked top among the first batch of the National Industrial Heritages recently announced by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

According to the ministry, industrial heritage is an important carrier of industrial culture, which has recorded the important information of various stages of China's industrial development, and witnessed the evolution of the country and its industries. It is of great historical value, scientific value, social cultural value, and artistic value.

Changyu, the only Shandong-based company on the list, has 11 core items developed over the course of China's modern wine making history. The items include the Underground Grand Cellar, the old gate of Changyu Pioneer Wine Co, the stone stele of Changyu Road and the stone boundary monument of Changyu, 1892 Club (former residence of Chang Bishi) and Changyu Treasury, King of Barrel in Asia and imported oak barrels in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), plate and frame filter, distiller, gold star Cognac Brandy, Sun Yat-sen's inscription for Changyu "Pin Zhong Li Quan" in 1912, gold medals of Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, and the brand registration certificate of "Cabernet" in 1937.

Changyu's historical significance has been well-recorded in the more than 100 years that the company has been in operation.

The Overview of Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wine Co published in a business newspaper in 1907 introduced that Changyu's Underground Grand Cellar was first built in the spring of 1896, and was rebuilt in 1902 and 1904 and finally completed in 1905.The Survey Report about Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wine Co published in the Shandong Agricultural and Mineral Department Communique in 1930 described that the cellar covers an area of 4 mu (0.27 hectares), is about 10 meters underground, and has 30 long alleys inside.