喺光緒十二年（1886年），由於廣州交通閉塞，張之洞就建議喺江邊起馬路，奏請咗朝廷批准，喺省河北岸修築長堤，嗰陣計畫個堤係整東西共長1800丈多啲，由南關天字碼頭整起先，分成10段陸續施工，“修成之堤，一律堅築馬路以便行車，沿堤多種樹木以蔭行人，馬路以內通修鋪廊以便商民交易，鋪廊以內廣修行棧、鱗列櫛比。”
In the twelfth year of Guangxu (1886), due to the traffic blockage in Guangzhou, Zhang Zhidong suggested that the road should be started by the river, and asked for the approval of the imperial court to build a long causeway on the north bank of the provincial river, at that time the planned embankment was a little more than 1800 zhang long from the whole east and west, from the Nanguan Tianzi wharf to the whole, divided into 10 sections of construction, the embankment of the reconnaissance and repair, all built the road for driving, along the embankment a variety of trees to shade pedestrians, the road was passed to repair the corridor for businessmen and people, and the corridor was divided into a wide practice stack, and the scales were compared. ”