红专厂艺术区

Redtory occupied 128 Yuancun Siheng Road in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, on the site of the Guangdong Canned Food Factory, planned in 1956 and in production from 1958. The plant was one of 165 key Soviet-Chinese cooperation projects and became the largest cannery in Asia; the canned dace in black bean sauce that spread across Asia was first made here. In 2008 the factory moved to Conghua under the city's 'retreat secondary industry, advance tertiary industry' policy. In 2009 the district government, the Yiqianjin group and a group of artists agreed a ten-year lease, and the Jimei Group converted the Soviet-era red-brick workshops, industrial machinery and old railway platform into Redtory, Guangzhou's first creative art district not driven by developers, covering about 170,000 square metres. It gathered galleries, design studios, art spaces and cafes, with the Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art (RMCA) at its core, and was often described as '798 in the north, Redtory in the south'. On 21 November 2019, with the ten-year lease expiring and the Guangzhou International Financial City plan advancing, RMCA and the whole art park closed. Under the industrial heritage plan, 54 historic buildings are retained and are to be adaptively reused as a heritage park; the former official website is no longer reachable and the listed telephone number dates from the park's operating years. It should be listed as closed, not as an operating venue.