Tasting Coffee and Food Inside a Printing Plant

Brief (coffeeyo.com): In Anshun, Guizhou, a 1989 printing plant — its red-brick walls and old workshops left intact — has been reinvented into a cultural-tourism landmark where cafés, restaurants and craft workshops draw crowds back to once-idle industrial space.

In the plant area of the Anshun Printing Plant on Dongjiao Road, Xixiu District, Anshun City, Guizhou Province, tourists stream in. Chen Menglin, a tourist from Changsha, Hunan, strolled and browsed, noting the plant area lets one both explore the urban memory carried by old buildings and try one’s hand at crafts and taste specialty foods. “This is different from ordinary commercial streets; the old factory buildings have a unique charm of their own,” Chen said.

The Anshun Printing Plant was built in 1989 and is an important witness to local industrial development. Mottled red-brick walls and old workshops preserve the struggle imprints of generations of workers. Along with industrial iteration, multiple workshops lay idle for a long time. To revitalize this industrial heritage, Anshun City introduced enterprises to renovate it. Now stepping into the plant area, red-brick walls, wooden beams and grey old tiles are preserved in their original flavor, blending with new formats such as cafés, specialty restaurants and craft workshops, becoming a new cultural-tourism landmark.

The continuously rising popularity has attracted many entrepreneurs to settle in. At present, diverse formats including coffee leisure, specialty dining and cultural-creative crafts gather here; more than 20 specialty shops have landed and begun operating in the plant area, and the once-idle industrial space has become lively again.

Old buildings preserve industrial memory, new formats expand consumption space. While preserving the heritage, the Anshun Printing Plant introduced consumption scenarios, letting the idle workshops re-integrate into city life and become a new choice for citizens and tourists to relax and consume.

Source: Guizhou Daily (originally published in People’s Daily, August 13, 2026, page 10), reporter Yang Yuanyuan.

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