Canal 5 Creative Campus

Canal 5 Creative Campus is located in Changzhou, Zhonglou District, Sanbao Street No.141. It founded in the end of 2008.^[1] It covers 36388 square meters and the floor area is about 32000 square meters large.^[2]

Sanbao Street used to be a place where merchant gathered and the market flourished especially for the wood industries. It made a number of super wood businessmen of Changzhou. It commercial status could be equal to Qingguo Lane. Canal 5 Creative Campus is a multifunctional block full of canal culture, industry remains and creative designs. It is the National AA Tourist Attraction Rating Categories and the Factory Tour Demonstration site of Changzhou.^[3]

Although the canal haven't been open to navigation for a long time, its loquacious glide still tells us the prosperity in the old time and the history once happened in Changzhou. Canal 5 Creative Campus had been included in 2010 Changzhou Tourism Culture Year.^[4][5]

• In the Chinese culture the number five and the number nine are regard as the symbol of the luck.
• The place used to be the No. 5 Woolen Mill remains. The former No. 5 Woolen Mill was one of the biggest woolen mills in Changzhou. The annual output could reach eight hundred thousand woollen blanket creating the Changzhou Wool textile industry's production records.
• In the Chinese, the pronunciation of the number five is the same as the character myself(吾). This presents the idea of the Canal 5 Creative Campus. It includes the creativity, imagination and the chances providing for the young Chinese to start their own business.

The main entrance of Canal 5 Creative Campus has a pier which can bring the visitors to get to the scenes such as Hongmei Park, Dongpo Park and Tianning Temple and so on.