The Conservation And Reuse Of Qingdao Textile Industry Heritage

The 1990s witnessed a stage when cities in China develop mainly through innovation and the traditional industries begun in the early and middle phase of the last century. In the process, industrial buildings and locations revealed ecological degradation, environmental pollution and a series of social questions, while we clearly get aware of some excellent examples, including the No. 6 State Cotton Textile Mill—the representative of the textile industry in Qingdao.Compared with Western countries, the history of the protection and reutilization of industrial heritages and constructions in our country is rather short. The protection, management and research of the heritages are still in the primary stage. Now the reconstruction and reutilization social value and economic value, but maximize their internal potentialities. This accords with the demand of sustainable development strategy ongoing nowadays.The Qingdao city is implementing the strategy of"Protection Along the Bay, Development Around the Bay"and will begin to build the Qingdao North Railway Station, creating opportunities of rejuvenating the declining No. 6 State Cotton Textile Mill.The paper aims to deal with the strategies on how to rejuvenate the heritage left by the No. 6 State Cotton Textile Mill, one of the most representative state-owned textile enterprises in the city of Qing Dao in Shan Dong Province, by studying some cases on the protection and reuse of excellent industrial heritage home and abroad as well as by comprehensively analyzing such factors as material and cultural resources around the factory and the policy trend related to the factory, together with the very nature of the factory itself.