Yan'an Road

In this 1933 map of Shanghai, Avenue Edward VII (now Yan'an Road East) stretches east–west across the centre of the map.
Yan'an Road relative to the main roads network in Shanghai.
Avenue Edward VII before World War II.

Yan'an Road (Chinese: 延安路, Yán'ān Lù; Shanghainese: Yi'ue Lu) is a road in Shanghai, a major east–west thoroughfare through the centre of the city. The modern Yan'an Road is in three sections, reflecting three connected streets which existed pre-1945: Avenue Edward VII, Avenue Foch, and the Great Western Road. The streets were joined together under a common name by the Republic of China government in 1945, then renamed in the early 1950s after the Chinese Communist Party took over Shanghai. The road is named after Yan'an, the Communist base during the Chinese Civil War.