Nanjing Chenguang 1865 Creative Industrial Park, Creative industrial complex in Qinhuai District, China

Nanjing Chenguang 1865 Creative Industrial Park occupies the former Jinling Machine Manufacturing Bureau at 388 Ying Tian Street, Qinhuai District. The site holds Qing-era factory halls and later industrial buildings, now converted into studios, galleries and offices. The Jinling Arsenal complex was begun in October 1865 on the site of the former Xitian Temple and completed in August 1866.

The site was established in 1865 as a weapons manufacturing facility, making it one of the first modern factories of its kind in the city. Over more than 150 years it served industrial production before later being transformed into a creative center.

The site's name comes from its founding year, 1865, and the Chenguang group that ran it. The arsenal's emblem was a swastika, a Buddhist symbol, used before the 1929 renaming to Jinling Arsenal. In 1932 the factory cast a bronze ding donated by Sun Yat-sen University staff and students, designed by the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum office and placed at the mausoleum. Today the workshops hold design studios and galleries.

The park is at 388 Ying Tian Street in the Qinhuai District. The site is a former industrial complex turned creative park, so expect a mix of preserved factory buildings and converted studio spaces. Check the park's layout before visiting to locate specific buildings, as the grounds are spread across the former factory area.

In April 2011, workers resurfacing a floor in one of the old workshops being converted uncovered the tombstone of Guo Xing, Duke of Shan, a Ming dynasty figure. The stone was found inside the factory grounds because the site had earlier been occupied by the Xitian Temple, built after the monk Bandda died there in 1381.