Zhongjie Street in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, is one of China’s most prosperous streets, with a history going back nearly 400 years. The street is lined with century-old brand stores, Chinese and Western-style buildings, deep hutongs (traditional alleyways) with elegant decorations, as well as old-flavor restaurants. Despite the vicissitudes of the times, the street still remains bustling. Tradition and modernity, locality and internationality, inheritance and innovation - these seemingly contradictory elements all blend in harmony here.