Shamian has said pick up Chui Chau. In the southwestern city of Guangzhou. Originally Pearl River alluvial sandbar, hence the name. Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties strategic position for domestic and foreign trade and tourist sites. After the Opium War, the Qing Xianfeng eleven years (1861) later became the British, French Concession. Guangzhou is now an important commercial port. Shamian in the Pearl River fork White Swan Pond River, covers an area of ​​330 acres.

Guangzhou Shamian is a popular tourist area, scenic and recreational area, it is the White Swan Hotel is located. The island green is better, there are more than 150 strains of old trees, fresh air, environmental health is very good and can be called Guangzhou paradise. For buildings, mostly for the construction of the late 19th century, and with the Western style, basically heritage building. Consulate General of the Netherlands is now also located in Guangzhou Shamian Island, which makes the sand on the island, there are many foreigners in this office, and the Consulate General of the Netherlands is the only place for Chinese citizens apply for US immigrant visas in China. After the founding of the city government set up a special agency management. The buildings in 1990, the Ministry of Construction, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, approved by the Architectural Society of China announced a national modern construction units outstanding. In 1996 the State Council promulgated a national key cultural relics protection units, there is a Consulate of the Netherlands, Netherlands Consulate in Guangzhou is still Shamian Island.

Shamian island has more than 150 European-style building, which has 42 prominent features of the new Baroque, Gothic imitation, coupons gallery-style, neo-classical style and Chinese and Western-style building, is Guangzhou's most exotic European architecture group. Building Shamian Street, No. 2-6, commonly known as the Red House, was originally a member of the Customs Yang Hua member of the club, three-storey, red brick masonry, north and south steeple built attic, imitation 19th century English Romantic architecture; Shamian street, building No. 54, was originally HSBC, imitation of Western classical revival architectural style, four stories high, two-story façade lined with pillars to the top three in the southwest pavilion roof has a top vault; Shamian street building 48, is the most representative coupons gallery building, three-storey, reinforced concrete structure, surrounded by arched corridors are coupons, brush washed stone facades meters; Shamian street of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic No. 14 Hall, the scale is small, simple structure, but its entrance is still imitation Gothic.

February 6, 1983, located in the sand of the White Swan Hotel, held a grand ceremony to celebrate the opening. White Swan Hotel is the first five-star hotel in China.

Scenic Area Address: Liwan District, Guangzhou Pearl River fork White Swan Pond River

Car lines: the Guangzhou Railway Station take the 823 Road to the City Hospital Station, walk about 110 meters to Shamian Island.