The British Concession demarcated the west of Huangpu River, north of Pidgin (now Yan 'an East Road), south of Lijiachang (now beijing east road) and east of Jielu (now Henan Middle Road). Later, it expanded to Suzhou River in the north and Nichengbang (now Tibet Middle Road) in the west.
2 American Concession. In the 27th year of Qing Daoguang (1847), the American consul asked Susong Daotai to designate Hongkou as the American Concession. The following year, through oral agreement, Hongkou section on the north bank of Suzhou Creek was taken as the concession of the United States.
1863 in June, the American consul signed a charter with Shanghai Road. The west side of the American Concession starts from the other side of Xiebao River (now the north side of Tibet Road and Bridge), goes east along Suzhou River and Huangpu River to 3 miles north of Yangshupu, and then draws a straight line to the west, returning to the other side of Xiebao River, forming an equilateral right triangle with an area of 3,466,700 square meters.
French Concession:1On April 6, 849, France and Shanghai Road formally signed an exchange of letters, and the Shanghai French Concession was established. Shanghai French Concession is the largest and best developed of the four major concessions in old China. The French Concession reached its peak in 1930s, and 1943 officially withdrew from the historical stage.
At first, the French Concession reached the moat in the south, Pidgin in the north, Zhujiajiao Bridge in Guandi Temple in the west and Chaozhou Guild Hall in Guangdong Province along the river in the east corner of Pidgin in the east. 19 14 French Concession extends the New Territories to Changbang Road (now Yan 'an Middle Road) in the north, to Xieqiao in the south, and to Elu Road (now Bangxi Road), Zhaozhou Road and Xieqiao in the east.
Since then, cross-border road construction has officially become a practical means to expand the concession, and cross-border road construction area has become a "quasi-concession". Concession was greatly encouraged, and large-scale cross-border road construction was carried out in the next twenty years. On the eve of Japan's invasion of China, the cross-border road construction area of the concession reached 47,000 mu, even exceeding the area of the concession itself.
4 Shanghai Gong * * * Concession, 1863 In September, the Anglo-American Concession was formally merged into Gong * * * Concession. 1899, Gongx Concession expanded on a large scale, reaching the junction of Shanghai and Baoshan counties in the north (now Mudong Road), Zhoujiazui in the east (now Simon Road in Pingliang Road) and Jing 'an Temple in the west. The whole concession is divided into four regions: central, northern, eastern and western.
In the history of Chinese concession, Shanghai concession has the largest area, the most prosperous economy, the most perfect laws, the largest management organization and the most fully developed concession. The area along the Yangtze River in North Huangpu, Jing 'an, Hongkou and Yangpu District is the most important part of Shanghai Concession (Anglo-American Concession).
Shanghai is the first city in China to be implanted with western urban management concepts and systems. Shanghai Concession is also the earliest place where China transplanted modern rule of law. Concession, as a de facto "state within a state", has its own legislative subject and power. The legal system, legal structure, trial system, lawyer system and prison system, which embody the modern legal system, all first appeared in the Shanghai Concession.