Chinatown, Gold Coast, Chinatown precinct in Southport, Gold Coast, Australia

Chinatown Gold Coast is a commercial district in Southport, spread along Davenport and Young Streets with connecting laneways running between them. The area is lined with restaurants, grocery stores, and small shops oriented toward Chinese and Asian goods and food.

The idea of a Gold Coast Chinatown was first raised by the local Chinese community in the early 1990s. In 2012, property owners on Young Street voted to establish the precinct through the Centre Improvement Program, and Davenport Street owners followed in 2013. Streetscape works were completed in 2014, and three Paifang gateways were built in 2018.

The Harmony Paifang at Young and Scarborough Streets, unveiled in early 2016, was designed with Beihai City in Han Dynasty style. Lanterns by artist Belinda Smith use red for wealth, gold for double happiness, blue for harmony and green for harvest, with red knots at their bases that the community decorates with tassels during festivals.

Southport light rail station sits at the northern entrance, on the corner of Nerang and Davenport Streets, and is a major bus interchange. The precinct covers Davenport and Young Streets plus the Regent and Davison laneways and parts of Nerang, Garden and Scarborough Streets. The 2014 streetscape works widened footpaths and added footpath and street lighting.

The Confucius statue was donated by Jining City in Shandong Province, the philosopher's birthplace. Pandamonium, a half-panda half-koala figure, came from Ted Fong, executive president of the Gold Coast Chinese Club and a founding chairman of the Chinatown association; artists David Renn and John Cox designed it for the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital Foundation's sculpture trail.