Industrial heritage in a broad sense includes handicraft industry, processing industry, mining industry and other sites with relatively long history before the industrial revolution, such as Daye copper mine and Fengdu zinc smelting site in Hubei Province, and even some large-scale water conservancy projects and mining and metallurgy sites in prehistoric times; The narrow sense of industrial heritage refers to the industrial heritage after the industrial revolution. In China, it mainly refers to all kinds of industrial heritages left over from the modernization process of China from the end of 19 to the beginning of the 20th century.
China's industrial heritage includes:
The former site of Huangyadong Arsenal, the Middle East Railway Complex, the early building of Tsingtao Brewery, the former site of Hanyeping Coal and Iron Plant, Shilongba Hydropower Station, Gejiu Ji Jie Railway Station, Qiantang River Bridge, the missile satellite launch site of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and Nantong Sheng Da Cotton Mill.
The above nine places are national key cultural relics protection units. There are many other places, mainly in the Jianghuai area.