Heping District.

Heping is the commercial and financial core of the old city, and the municipal plan gives it that role in one word: finance. It contains the Five Great Avenues, the Quanyechang crossing, St Joseph's Cathedral, Jiefang North Road and the Nanshi food street, which means that most of the city's surviving concession architecture is inside one district. The Tianjin municipal government sat here until 2010, when it moved to Hexi. The district is also where the old and new commercial centres meet: Guyi Street's silk trade lay outside the wall to the north-west, while Quanyechang grew up at a crossing in the French concession, and by the 1930s the second had replaced the first as the city's commercial hub.