1954年廣州改省轄市至今。1956年，當局開始推行公私合營，措施令到所有私人經營嘅商號都畀充公，變成“國有”，大量商人逃去香港，形成今日省港兩地均有同一字號嘅局面，由家族後人真正持有嘅百年老鋪喺廣州近乎絕跡。當局喺沒收所有戲院後都改名作電影院，呢個亦係語言蠶食嘅開始（香港至今仍習慣稱戲院，但廣州喺1950年代起畀潛移默化改叫電影院）。
In 1954, Guangzhou was changed to a provincial municipality. In 1956, the authorities began to implement public-private partnerships, which allowed all privately operated businesses to be confiscated and turned into state-owned uranium, and a large number of businessmen fled to Hong Kong, resulting in a situation where both provinces and Hong Kong have the same name today, and the century-old shops really owned by the descendants of the family are almost extinct in Guangzhou. After the confiscation of all cinemas, they were renamed cinemas, which may have been the beginning of language cannibalization (Hong Kong is still used to call cinemas, but Guangzhou was subtly renamed cinemas in the 1950s).