The most central street in Harbin "foreign flavor" when is the streets of Central Avenue (formerly China's Main Street). Those who do not have been to Moscow, Paris, Rome, Greece, to be in the streets of this city a taste of these architectural features.

Yeung Street is, of course, a section of "foreign history". 1898 Harbin began large-scale construction of railways and urban construction, and Lin Sheng from the Commissioner of the massive influx of workers in Harbin, the original ancient sites along the river, is inhospitable to low-lying Caodian Zi, delivering equipment railway carriage in the mud in the open A soil Road, Central Avenue that is the embryonic form, so the Middle East wasteland along the railway project will be pulling for the Chinese people living in Harbin, which formed in 1900 to "China's Main Street," intended for the Chinese people living in the street. In the narrow streets on either side of the cloacae, covered with wooden planks, monolithic, for the people walking in the crossroads Jiazhuo wooden bridge, walk in the streets of this mule is to control the car. Sunny dusty, muddy on rainy days can not, due to the establishment of Butou District, where the Puzi Eren also more, and more than a plaque in Russian, the operation of groceries repair, etc., so that although the "Chinese street" But many on both sides of the Continental Construction, commercial operators are mostly foreigners like a foreign city in general. May 1924, by Russian engineers Comte La Xiaoke design, supervision, the Chinese side streets covered with stones, suddenly seems luxurious, when China's foreign street shops, pharmacies, restaurants, hotels, bars, dance halls or not Its number of branches of which hang Qiu-lin, Ma Seoul hotel again and again throughout the Far East region is also quite famous, in this most fashionable street in Harbin, Russia's fur, the United Kingdom Nerong, France's perfume, the German pharmaceuticals Japan's cotton cloth, the United States Yang You, the Swiss watches, melon wow of sugar, India's sacks, and both countries Ganxianguopin sale, no less than an international commodity fair.

July 1928, China officially renamed the street "Central Avenue", which is now Central Avenue, North River Bank since the flood protection Tower Square, the south-New Square, 1,400 meters long, 11 meters Lu Kuan, wide sidewalks 2-6 meters , Remains the original box smooth granite surfaces paved road. On both sides of the street commerce, catering services nearly 200 points, formed a wide range, more comprehensive services to service centres, especially in recent years, traders at the re-cosmetic paste the Xiangyin, Zhangdengjiecai, the central streets dressed up A more magnificent, as Harbin's most famous feature of most commercial street.

In 1997, the Harbin municipal government of the Central Avenue as a pedestrian street, an increase of its charm.