Travel Reference
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Continue south along the promenade, heading towards the clock tower. To the tower's
right at No. 14 is the 1947 former Bank of Communications building, now the Shanghai Trade
Union Bank - the last edifice to be completed on the Bund before the establishment of the
PRC. Its stripped Gothic Art Deco design is unique among the mostly Neoclassical Bund
buildings.
The Big Ching
Cross at the traffic lights back to the west side of the Bund and enter the
Customs House
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(Laohaiguan; Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, lobby only), built in 1925. Its four-faced clock - 'Big
Ching' to the British in the old days - still chimes 'the East is Red' every quarter-hour. A
plaque to the right of the entrance commemorates the Communist employees of the Cus-
toms service who operated a clandestine radio here before the People's Liberation Army
took the city in May 1949. Enter the lobby (during working hours) to see the lovely ceiling mo-
saics.
