Located at 23 Shanghai Bund, the Bank of China Building is the most important material and cultural heritage of the Bank of China and even modern China's financial industry, and is the only building in the entire Chinese banking system that is included in the key cultural relics protection units in the country. The Bund 23 was originally a three-story brick and wood structure built in 1908 by the German General Chamber of Commerce, and was confiscated as enemy property by the Chinese government in the North Ocean after the war. Among the many banking buildings on the Shanghai Bund, the Bank of China building is the only building funded by the Chinese themselves, designed by themselves, and built by themselves. Lu Qian, Head of Architecture at Bank of China (graduating from the British Institute of Architecture), was appointed as a designer and hired British businessmen and foreign architects as consultants. Chinese businessmen Tao Ji builder contracted. The building was laid on October 10, 1936.